Trial of the Clone is written by Zach Weiner, known to a significant geek contingent for his webcomic, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. To that contingent, he’s the funniest thing that’s happened to images and words put together since The Far Side. To me, he’s someone who makes comics I laugh at roughly once every thirty strips. The sense of humor in Clone is up to the standards of Weiner’s comics
The Quality Index decides to Choose Its Own Favourite iOS Adventures. Here they are, then.
Text adventures were some of the earliest forms of video games, but we’ve come a long way since Hunt the Wumpus and Adventure. Some of today’s surviving pockets of the genre are visual novels and gamebooks — two very niche types of games that most people associate with tons of reading. They cringe at the idea and then go peruse libraries in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Despite their name, these games aren’t all about text. Interactive fiction is perhaps a better classification. That misconception can hurt sales, so manipulating the genre to emphasize its versatility and flexibility could be the key to a more successful future.
One of the earliest games I played was Zork I on a Commodore 64 (yes, I'm old). Nice to see the genre making a bit of a comeback.
GameZebo: I’d never heard of Zach Weinersmith, author of Trial of the Clone, but I probably should have. The author of a popular webcomic, he decided to try his hand at writing a gamebook and gathered the necessary funds via Kickstarter. The resulting book has now made its way to iOS and into my review queue.
