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Do You Like Interactive Fiction and Call of Cthulhu?

By imworlds ⋅ March 25, 2007 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment del.icio.us StumbleUpon

I’ve mentioned Anchorhead before, but I thought I would post a link to Michael Gentry’s site. Anchorhead is a free interactive fiction game that has earned a collection of rave reviews within the IF (that’s interactive fiction) community over the past seven or so years. The game bests anything that Infocom did (in my opinion).

If you love Lovecraft, and have a fond nostalgia for the old Zork games, or you want something new to read and interact with, then I highly recommend that you give Anchorhead a try. If you are unfamiliar with interactive fiction, check it out. In some ways, even though the medium is commercially dead, the thriving community of amateur writers is anything but amateur. There is some really stellar stuff to be found being published right now.

If you would like to check out Anchorhead online, first, you can link here (although the game really requires a bit of your time to suck you in, just like a good novel). The mood this guy develops, and the character depth, is amazing, considering that this is just a game.

Gentry, the author of Anchorhead, is currently in the process of creating a “director’s cut” version of the game. You’ll need to download an IF interpreter and the game to your hard drive, which I recommend doing anyway so that you can download other games in the future. You can link to his personal site here to get the beta version of Anchorhead.