Deep Space Drifter description
Fully text adventure, created in 1987 by two people using TADS (Text Adventure Development System) and distributed as shareware; the site presents the full version of 1990.
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The plot is as follows: the distant future, to play for a space pilot, the adventurer, made an error in the navigation calculations during the flight and was in a completely uninhabited part of space, who is running out of fuel. In desperation, he sends a distress call that is answered (with strong signals during the broadcast) strange woman, in an agitated voice, telling you that they are ready to take it on a relatively close station K-7, but if after refueling and repair, he will immediately leave this place, and upon arrival will probably not be able to meet him personally. However, to blahozelania still need to fly...
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About the game in General not so much - except to recognize the fact quite high-quality study of all elements of gameplay (sub)genre, despite the shareware origin. The lyrics is very describe in detail the events (in this case the name of the location in which you are always displayed in the upper left corner of the screen), even by themselves at times, can seem dry and boring; teams that have to enter from the keyboard to advance the plot, not too complicated (as a rule - bundles of verbs and nouns, but there are auxiliary parts of speech), but the thought of what to enter, it is often difficult, including because of not too much "vocabulary" in TADS; the game is almost impossible to pass without mapping the visited places. The plot, I must say, is reminiscent of if not the best, at least worthy literary examples of the gloomy science fiction.
Now Deep Space Drifter - perhaps the most well-known TADS-game, besides objectively well-made; of course, like almost every IF it is suitable not for everyone, but connoisseurs of text quests with a well-crafted fantastic stories that require careful reading, may appeal.
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Source: Archive.org