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All Things Devours

half sick of shadows · 2004

A time machine, a building you must not be seen in twice, and a plan that only works if you have already made it work.

Play

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  • Z-code
  • Science fiction
  • Parser
  • About 1.5 hours
  • 157 KB

About

All Things Devours is a small, extremely tight time-travel puzzle. You are somewhere you should not be, there is a machine that sends things a short way into the past, and the rule the game enforces without mercy is that you must never be in a position to encounter your earlier self.

It is built to be replayed. Most attempts end in failure that teaches you the shape of the solution, and the finished run is a piece of choreography in which every move you make is one you already watched yourself make. Expect to keep notes.

Tags

  • Puzzles
  • Science fiction
  • Short
  • Time travel

History

This chronology includes the world around All Things Devours: background that may predate the game, its creation and publication, and later editions, research, and preservation. An early date is historical context, not necessarily a game release.

  1. Publication

    All Things Devours published — by half sick of shadows

    The publication year for the work itself. Earlier entries are historical background, not earlier releases of the game.

  2. Lampward

    Playable release — Release 3

    The exact release Lampward currently serves. It may be a later edition or port of an older work.

Documents & sources

  • reference · Reference

    All Things Devours on IFDB

    Editions, reviews and the release history, including the Release 3 revision Lampward serves.

    IFDB

  • reference · Reference

    All Things Devours on IFWiki

    Background on the game, its author's pseudonym, and its several releases.

    IFWiki

Rights to these documents are separate from rights to the game. Lampward links to archives it may not mirror, and says so rather than implying it holds a copy.

Credits & License

Credits
Written under the pseudonym “half sick of shadows”. The Inform 6 source was explicitly released into the public domain by its author.
Playing
All Things Devours — Release 3, Z-code 5, serial 050325
IFID ZCODE-3-050325-6D3F
License
Public domain
Use
Public domain: the author placed the source in the public domain, so Lampward may host and serve it without restriction, commercially or otherwise.
Source
Artwork
No cover art is used; the title card is generated by Lampward.

Rights to the game binary, to cover art, and to any documentary material on this page are separate. A permission covering one does not cover the others.

More bibliographic detail: this title on IFDB