Remembering 'Portal,' Activision's Interactive Novel
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Aside: After programming, I can not bring myself to place separating punctuation inside quotation marks. It seems entirely wrong to place characters within the quotation when they clearly come from without.
From the screen shots, it looks like the game uses the normal Amiga graphical interface. I wonder if the author even knows what an Amiga was, or maybe he knows about games on the Amiga, but he doesn't realize that applications on the Amiga used a GUI.
As for the game, I liked the story, but there really wasn't any gameplay as such -- you merely uncovered more of the story by clicking around. In a way, it reminded me of Pavic's "Dictionary of the Khazars" in that it was a non-linear narrative told in pieces that the reader had to put together into a coherent narrative.