It's been a decade since you graduated, but now it looks like you're going to have to solve one more Ditch Day stack. You play a Caltech alum whose big-company employer sends you back to campus to recruit a star student. But when you get there, you find the tables turned when your candidate makes you audition to be his employer. What do you have to do to win your new recruit? You just have to solve a little Ditch Day stack, of course. Return to Ditch Day is a sprawling interactive adventure, part treasure hunt, part mystery, part science fiction. It was written as a demonstration and example of TADS 3, the latest generation of the TADS authoring tool for Interactive Fiction, but it's not just a demo - it's a full-fledged game, with an expansive and detailed setting, an engrossing plot, a cast of eccentric characters, and lots of challenging and logical puzzles. And the game gives you an unusual amount of control over the way the story unfolds: you can simply pursue your "official" goals, or you can also investigate an elaborate hidden mystery. |
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