A Change in the Weather
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| A Change in the Weather | |
|---|---|
| Developer | Andrew Plotkin |
| Platform | Z-machine[1] |
| Release | 1995[1] |
| Genre | Interactive fiction |
A Change in the Weather is a 1995 interactive fiction (IF) video game.
Developed by Andrew Plotkin, the game[2] is written in version five of the Inform programming language,[3] and compiled for the Z-machine,[1] a virtual machine that allows interactive fiction to be played on a variety of platforms.[4] On June 24, 2014, Plotkin shared A Change in the Weather's source code for "personal, educational use only."[3]
The game tied for first place in the Inform category of the 1995 Interactive Fiction Competition.[5]
As one of six IF games recommended by CU Amiga in 1998, Jason Compton called A Change in the Weather "Very, very hard, it challenges IF conventions and makes you think (and save your game) quite a lot."[2] Interactive fiction scholar Nick Montfort called it "remarkable ... for its attempts to integrate the typical sorts of adventure-game puzzles with the description of landscape, the simulation of an animal character, and the emotional situation of the 'adventurer' player character".[6]
A Change in the Weather is included in the game collection that comes with the popular IF interpreter Frotz for the iPhone.[7]
