Counterfeit Monkey is a 2012 interactive fiction espionage game by Emily Short.
Plot and gameplay
Set in Anglophone Atlantis, the world's greatest center for linguistic manipulation, the player has been merged with another person. They are equipped with one full-alphabet letter remover and are tasked to get off the island.[1]
Development and release
The game was developed in Inform 7 and is licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
It was first released in 2012[1] and the latest release was in February 2023.[2]
Reception and awards
Rock Paper Shotgun appreciated the joy of "gazing on your environment with the knowledge that it can be linguistically reshaped" and that puzzles had multiple solutions thus making success feeling personalized, ending the review with "With over eight hours of delicious wordplay, Counterfeit Monkey is a powerful start to interactive fiction in 2013.".[3]
The game won "Best game" in the 2012 XYZZY Awards, is (2023) listed #1 in the Interactive Fiction Database top 100[4], and was voted #1 in a member vote in 2023[5].
References
- 1 2 "Counterfeit Monkey" at the Interactive Fiction Database.
- ↑ "Counterfeit Monkey", github.com.
- ↑ Porpentine. "Live Free, Play Hard: The Week's Finest Free Indie Games ", Rock Paper Shotgun, 6 January 2013.
- ↑ "IFDB Top 100" (archived), ifdb.org, 13 November 2023.
- ↑ "Interactive Fiction Top 50 of All Time (2023 edition)", ifdb.org, 15 September 2023.