Re: Marketing, was Re: C


12 Dec 1995 19:04:38 GMT

My two favorite Infocoms of all times were Trinity and Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy. The writing - content, intelligence, evocative poetic
prose of the first and incredibly witty and clever prose of the second
(with a quality novel behind it, admittedly) -- made them great. But then
there's a lot of the "invisible qualities" that you don't notice because
they don't call attention to themselves - pacing, puzzles well-integrated
with the story and not "tacked on," all around integrity of the "modules"
and how they relate to the whole. Then maybe too there's a quality of
"strangeness," similar to the way Hynek used the term to describe aspects
of many UFO encounters - the sense of taking you to the edge of the known
universe (in the context of the story) and showing you doors into the
next domain, a dimension of story you hadn't seen or imagined previously.
There are visual images in Trinity and feelings of wide wind-swept
places, lonely and yet hopeful, that remain with me yet.