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* DisguisedHorrorStory: Starts out as a simple search for your plane tickets, but [[spoiler: when sand begins pouring from every crevice in your apartment, things quickly begin going downhill.]]
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* SurpriseCreepy: Starts out as a simple search for your plane tickets, but [[spoiler: when sand begins pouring from every crevice in your apartment, things quickly begin going downhill.]]
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''Shade'' is a one-room InteractiveFiction game by Creator/AndrewPlotkin that takes place in the player character's apartment the night before a planned trip to an arts festival. Your ostensible goals are to complete your household chores and make sure that you have everything ready for your trip. Of course, things become more complicated later on...
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''Shade'' is a one-room InteractiveFiction game made by Creator/AndrewPlotkinthat in 2000. It takes place in the player character's apartment the night before a planned trip to an arts festival. Your ostensible goals are to complete your household chores and make sure that you have everything ready for your trip. Of course, things become more complicated later on...
''Shade'' is a one-room InteractiveFiction game made by Creator/AndrewPlotkin
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* YouCantGetYeFlask: Some dialogue options are a bit confusing.
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* RevealingContinuityLapse: The aforementioned changing plant, which serves as foreshadowing that [[spoiler: the entire apartment is a hallucination and you're actually in the desert.]]
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''Shade'' is a one-room InteractiveFiction game by Andrew Plotkin that takes place in the player character's apartment the night before a planned trip to an arts festival. Your ostensible goals are to complete your household chores and make sure that you have everything ready for your trip. Of course, things become more complicated later on...
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''Shade'' is a one-room InteractiveFiction game by Andrew Plotkin Creator/AndrewPlotkin that takes place in the player character's apartment the night before a planned trip to an arts festival. Your ostensible goals are to complete your household chores and make sure that you have everything ready for your trip. Of course, things become more complicated later on...
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Your thirst at the beginning of the game, the radio broadcast about people missing in the desert, the helicopter you hear passing over your apartment...]]
* HopeSpot: You find yourself back in an intact apartment after seemingly turning almost everything in it to sand, and you hear the sound of your taxi ride to the airport pulling up outside. Except that when you try to do anything, ''your entire apartment vanishes'', leaving you stranded in the desert.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Your thirst at the beginning of the game, the radio broadcast about people missing in the desert, the helicopter you hear passing over your apartment...]]
* HopeSpot: You find yourself back in an intact apartment after seemingly turning almost everything in it to sand, and you hear the sound of your taxi ride to the airport pulling up outside. Except that when you try to do anything, ''your entire apartment vanishes'', leaving you stranded in the desert.
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DyingDream: [[spoiler: The entirety of the game is this; you got stranded in the desert during the Death Valley Om and are hallucinating being in your apartment.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}:[[spoiler:Your [[spoiler: Your thirst at the beginning of the game, the radio broadcast about people missing in the desert, the helicopter you hear passing over your apartment...]]
** [[spoiler: The plant on your windowsill changes repeatedly, going from a hyacinth to a spider plant to a cactus, with no mention of this made by the protagonist. It also gets drier and drier as the game progresses, even after you water it.]]
** [[spoiler: Your refusal to draw the shade on the window, with the comment that "you do not want the dark." Similarly, attempting to open the front door when the taxi is outside leads the game to say, "You do not want that."]]
* GuideDangIt: In the middle section of the game, it becomes extremely difficult to figure out what you're supposed to be doing when [[spoiler: everything in the apartment starts bursting into piles of sand, especially when interacting with it seems to do nothing.]] Slightly subverted in that there is one in-game clue - [[spoiler: the to-do list, which now changes to reflect the next area to turn into sand.]] However, by this point in the game, it will have been so long since interacting with that item, it's likely you forgot it was even still there and looked up a guide instead.
* HopeSpot: You find yourself back in an intact apartment after [[spoiler: seemingly turning almost everything in it tosand, sand]], and you hear the sound of your taxi ride to the airport pulling up outside. Except that when you try to do anything, [[spoiler: ''your entire apartment vanishes'', leaving you stranded in the desert.]]
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** [[spoiler: The plant on your windowsill changes repeatedly, going from a hyacinth to a spider plant to a cactus, with no mention of this made by the protagonist. It also gets drier and drier as the game progresses, even after you water it.]]
** [[spoiler: Your refusal to draw the shade on the window, with the comment that "you do not want the dark." Similarly, attempting to open the front door when the taxi is outside leads the game to say, "You do not want that."]]
* GuideDangIt: In the middle section of the game, it becomes extremely difficult to figure out what you're supposed to be doing when [[spoiler: everything in the apartment starts bursting into piles of sand, especially when interacting with it seems to do nothing.]] Slightly subverted in that there is one in-game clue - [[spoiler: the to-do list, which now changes to reflect the next area to turn into sand.]] However, by this point in the game, it will have been so long since interacting with that item, it's likely you forgot it was even still there and looked up a guide instead.
* HopeSpot: You find yourself back in an intact apartment after [[spoiler: seemingly turning almost everything in it to
* MinimalistCast: You are the only character in the game, with the possible exception of [[spoiler: the small figure that appears when your apartment finally crumbles away.]]
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* SurpriseCreepy: Starts out as a simple search for your plane tickets, but [[spoiler: when sand begins pouring from every crevice in your apartment, things quickly begin going downhill.]]
* ThirstyDesert: Where you plan on heading for the Death Valley Om, and [[spoiler: where you've been slowly wasting away for the entirety of the game.]]
* TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: The taxi doesn't show up until the very end, when [[spoiler: your DyingDream has pretty much crumbled to pieces.]]
* YouCantGetYeFlask: Some dialogue options are a bit confusing.
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To say anything more would spoil this game's unique playing experience; in fact, most of the tropes listed below are '''major spoilers''' in name alone, so it's strongly recommended to play through the game at least once before reading them (and the YMMV page). Just keep in mind that ''Shade'' won the 2000 XYZZY award for Best Setting and was a finalist for many other awards in spite of it taking place in only one location, which should tell you something about its quality and ability to linger in players' minds long after completion.
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To say anything more would spoil this game's unique playing experience; in fact, most of the tropes listed below are '''major spoilers''' in name alone, so it's strongly recommended to play through the game at least once before reading them (and the YMMV page). Just keep in mind that ''Shade'' won the 2000 XYZZY award for Best Setting and was a finalist for many other awards in spite of it taking place in only one location, which should tell you something about its quality and ability to linger in players' minds long after completion.
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* [[spoiler:[[CreepyChangingPainting Creepy Changing Plant]]: Over the course of the game, your hyacinth plant turns into a spider plant, then a fern, and finally a cactus.]]
* [[spoiler:DreamApocalypse: Made even creepier by how you seem to actually be ''exulting'' in smashing the remnants of your doomed dream midway through the game.]]
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* [[spoiler:HopeSpot: HopeSpot: You find yourself back in an intact apartment after seemingly turning almost everything in it to sand, and you hear the sound of your taxi ride to the airport pulling up outside. Except that when you try to do anything, ''your entire apartment vanishes'', leaving you stranded in the desert.]]
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''Shade'' is a one-room InteractiveFiction game by Andrew Plotkin that takes place in the player character's apartment the night before a planned trip to an arts festival. Your ostensible goals are to complete your household chores and make sure that you have everything ready for your trip. Of course, things become more complicated later on...
To say anything more would spoil this game's unique playing experience; in fact, most of the tropes listed below are '''major spoilers''' in name alone, so it's strongly recommended to play through the game at least once before reading them (and the YMMV page). Just keep in mind that ''Shade'' won the 2000 XYZZY award for Best Setting and was a finalist for many other awards in spite of it taking place in only one location, which should tell you something about its quality and ability to linger in players' minds long after completion.
You can download the game [[http://wurb.com/if/game/918 here]] or play it online [[http://www.ifiction.org/games/playz.php?cat=&game=297&mode=html here]].
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!!This game contains the following tropes:
* [[spoiler:AllJustADream -> OrWasItADream]]
* ButThouMust: Either you do the actions required to advance the plot, or you stay stuck until you do.
* [[spoiler:[[CreepyChangingPainting Creepy Changing Plant]]: Over the course of the game, your hyacinth plant turns into a spider plant, then a fern, and finally a cactus.]]
* [[spoiler:DreamApocalypse: Made even creepier by how you seem to actually be ''exulting'' in smashing the remnants of your doomed dream midway through the game.]]
* [[spoiler:DyingDream]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Your thirst at the beginning of the game, the radio broadcast about people missing in the desert, the helicopter you hear passing over your apartment...]]
* [[spoiler:HopeSpot: You find yourself back in an intact apartment after seemingly turning almost everything in it to sand, and you hear the sound of your taxi ride to the airport pulling up outside. Except that when you try to do anything, ''your entire apartment vanishes'', leaving you stranded in the desert.]]
* LastPlaceYouLook: Your airplane tickets will always be in the last of three possible locations you search.
* MindScrew: [[spoiler:Okay, you're most likely suffering from a near-death hallucination in the desert, but what's up with the shadow that tries to hide from you, is harmed if you so much as ''speak'' to it, and says "it's my turn now" when it's supposedly "dead"?]]
* [[spoiler:SurpriseCreepy]]
To say anything more would spoil this game's unique playing experience; in fact, most of the tropes listed below are '''major spoilers''' in name alone, so it's strongly recommended to play through the game at least once before reading them (and the YMMV page). Just keep in mind that ''Shade'' won the 2000 XYZZY award for Best Setting and was a finalist for many other awards in spite of it taking place in only one location, which should tell you something about its quality and ability to linger in players' minds long after completion.
You can download the game [[http://wurb.com/if/game/918 here]] or play it online [[http://www.ifiction.org/games/playz.php?cat=&game=297&mode=html here]].
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!!This game contains the following tropes:
* [[spoiler:AllJustADream -> OrWasItADream]]
* ButThouMust: Either you do the actions required to advance the plot, or you stay stuck until you do.
* [[spoiler:[[CreepyChangingPainting Creepy Changing Plant]]: Over the course of the game, your hyacinth plant turns into a spider plant, then a fern, and finally a cactus.]]
* [[spoiler:DreamApocalypse: Made even creepier by how you seem to actually be ''exulting'' in smashing the remnants of your doomed dream midway through the game.]]
* [[spoiler:DyingDream]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Your thirst at the beginning of the game, the radio broadcast about people missing in the desert, the helicopter you hear passing over your apartment...]]
* [[spoiler:HopeSpot: You find yourself back in an intact apartment after seemingly turning almost everything in it to sand, and you hear the sound of your taxi ride to the airport pulling up outside. Except that when you try to do anything, ''your entire apartment vanishes'', leaving you stranded in the desert.]]
* LastPlaceYouLook: Your airplane tickets will always be in the last of three possible locations you search.
* MindScrew: [[spoiler:Okay, you're most likely suffering from a near-death hallucination in the desert, but what's up with the shadow that tries to hide from you, is harmed if you so much as ''speak'' to it, and says "it's my turn now" when it's supposedly "dead"?]]
* [[spoiler:SurpriseCreepy]]
