Rameses

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Drama Romance School City IF Comp 2000 13th of 34 XYZZY Awards 2000 Best Individual PC

XYZZY Awards 2000 Finalist - Best Use of Medium, Best NPCs, Best Story, Best Writing, Best Game

RAMESES
A Tale of Heroes

Rameses
Author(s)	Stephen Bond
Publisher(s)	n/a
Release date(s)	22-Nov-2000
Authoring system	Inform 6
Platform(s)	Z-code 5
Language(s)	English
License(s)	Freeware
Multimedia
Color	none
Graphics	none
Sound/Music	none
Ratings
Cruelty scale	Merciful

Contents 1 How It Begins 2 Notable Features 3 Trivia and Comments 4 Versions 4.1 Competition version 4.2 Release 2 4.3 Release 3 5 Links 5.1 General Info 5.2 Reviews 5.3 Spoilers

How It Begins

Rameses Alexander Moran is a self-proclaimed "shy, indecisive, and uncharismatic" boy living at an Irish boarding school, which he has only contempt for. He reminisces about his childhood friend Daniel Maguire in a dream as they playfully shout profanities at each other on a busy railway station platform.

He awakes on his bunkbed in a four-bed dormitory.

Notable Features

• Rameses is entirely puzzleless.
• It is written in the first person.
• It makes frequent use of the magician's choice technique.

Trivia and Comments

• The game can be 'completed' by repeatedly typing wait at the prompt.

Versions

Competition version

• Rameses (Stephen Bond; 22-Nov-2000; Z-code).
  • IFID: ZCODE-1-000905-D436
    Babel: metadata, download. (Babel services at IF Archive are not yet available.)
  • IF Comp 2000: 13th place of 53 entries.
  • XYZZY Awards 2000: Winner of Best Individual PC. Also finalist for Best Use of Medium, Best NPCs, Best Story, Best Writing, and Best Game.
  • Files in the inform/rameses/ directory:
    • rameses.z5 (159 KB; story file; download).

Release 2

• Rameses (Stephen Bond; 28-Nov-2000; Z-code).
  • IFID wanted. (Please replace this line with a babel template.)

Release 3

• Rameses (Stephen Bond; 23-Oct-2006; Z-code).
  • IFID: ZCODE-3-061023-FFD2
    Babel: metadata, download. (Babel services at IF Archive are not yet available.)
  • Files:
    • rameses.zblorb (163 KB; story file; download).

Links

General Info

• Rameses - at Baf's Guide
• Rameses - at Home of the Underdogs

Reviews

• Rameses - at SPAG - reviewed by Duncan Stevens and Tina Sikorski.
• Rameses - at IFReviews.org
  • IFReview by Paul O'Brian.
  • IFReview by Andrew Plotkin.
• Rameses - at IF Ratings.
• Review - by Paul O'Brian.
• Review - by Dan Shiovitz.
• Review - by Emily Short at Play This Thing!
• Review - by Duncan Stevens.

Spoilers

• ClubFloyd transcript.