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Fate

Victor Gijsbers · 2007

A witch offers to lift the curse on your village. Everything after that is what you are willing to trade for it.

Play

SAVE creates a named Lampward checkpoint on this device. Nothing is saved automatically.

  • Z-code
  • Fantasy
  • Parser
  • About 1.5 hours
  • 471 KB

About

Fate is a game about bargaining, and about what a person will give up when the thing they want is close enough to touch. It is built around conversation rather than puzzles: you talk, you choose, and the story bends to what you chose.

It won Spring Thing 2007 and was nominated for three XYZZY awards. Victor Gijsbers released the Inform 7 source under the GPL and invited other people to change it, which is why Lampward can host it at all.

Tags

  • Choices
  • Conversation
  • Fantasy

History

This chronology includes the world around Fate: 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

    Fate published — by Victor Gijsbers

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

  2. Lampward

    Playable release — Release 1

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

Documents & sources

  • reference · Reference

    Fate on IFDB

    Reviews, awards and release history.

    IFDB

  • source archive · External archive

    Fate source code

    The Inform 7 source Victor Gijsbers released under the GPL, and the document that carries the licence Lampward hosts this on.

    IF Archive · GNU General Public License v3.0

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
Victor Gijsbers. Winner of Spring Thing 2007.
Playing
Fate — Release 1, Z-code 8, serial 070329
IFID ED239114-64D5-4EE9-B7C8-E26BF6B9E57F
License
GNU General Public License v3.0
Use
Free software under the GPL v3: redistribution is permitted, including commercially, provided the licence travels with it and source remains available.
Source
Notices

Copyright © 2007 Victor Gijsbers.

This work is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html.

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