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All Roads

Author: Jon Ingold

Web URL or medium: Interactive Fiction on CD-ROM.

Description: A piece of Interactive Fiction - a story guided by a player, who interacts with the world using short imperative sentences, manipulating objects, navigating, and communicating with people. Set in seventeenth century Venice, "All Roads" puts the player in the role of an assassin with a supernatural power, who is about to be hanged.

Technical requirements: Any computer with Z-machine interpreter.

Start/Restart instructions:
Once game is booted up, typing RESTART/RESTORE/QUIT performs said action (RESTORE meaning "load from a previously SAVE'd position). Typing the HELP command, brings up a more detailed list of commands and an example of how to use them.