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Galatea

Emily Short · 2000

A statue on a plinth in an empty gallery. She is awake, and she would like to know what you want.

Play

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

  • Z-code
  • Conversation
  • Parser
  • About 1 hour
  • 260 KB

About

Galatea has one room, one character, and no puzzles. You are a critic at a gallery showing; the exhibit is a sculpture that turns her head when you speak to her. Everything the game has is in the conversation.

It is the piece that showed how much could be built out of talking alone. Depending on what you ask, what you believe, and how you treat her, the encounter branches into dozens of quite different endings — some warm, some cruel, several that reframe everything she has told you. Replay is the point.

Tags

  • Classic
  • Conversation
  • One room
  • Short

History

This chronology includes the world around Galatea: 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

    Galatea published — by Emily Short

    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

  • archived listing · Reference

    Galatea in the Electronic Literature Collection

    The Electronic Literature Organization's edition of the work, and the page whose licence statement Lampward's hosting rests on. It names the exact file and places it under CC BY-NC-ND 2.5.

    Electronic Literature Organization

  • reference · Reference

    Galatea on IFDB

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

    IFDB

  • reference · Reference

    Galatea on IFWiki

    Background on the work, its awards, and its branching ending structure.

    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
Emily Short. Distributed in the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1 (Electronic Literature Organization, 2006).
Playing
Galatea — Release 3, Z-code 8, serial 040208
IFID ZCODE-3-040208-2BC1
License
CC BY-NC-ND 2.5
Use
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.5: Lampward may host and serve the unmodified story file with attribution, for noncommercial use only.
Source
Notices

Copyright © 2000 Emily Short.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. You may copy and redistribute the unmodified story file, with attribution to the author, for noncommercial purposes. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/

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