🧭 THE ARCHIVES

Quote of the day

As the door swings open you are blinded by intense light and incredible pain. Just before everything overloads and you fade from existence, you can make out a shape outside, holding onto the door of the cylinder, and then everything goes dark.

-- Suspended

Factoid of the day

For most Infocom games, the packaging and "feelies" were designed to complement the story. For Wishbringer, though, the packaging was conceptualized before the game. Brian Moriarty reasoned that a magic ring or a glowing stone would make a great "feelie" to include in a game box. His peers thought it was a great idea, too, so he began developing Wishbringer, a story about a glowing magical stone.

Link of the day

Zarf Updates

IF author Andrew Plotkin's blog about all things IF.

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Invisiclues

Leather Goddesses of Phobos

Acknowledgements

(Click or tap on any clue to reveal the clue.)

What are the acknowledgements doing in the hint booklet?

The manual is printed too early to include acknowledgements, and there simply wasn't room on the story disk. (In fact, the Leather Goddesses of Phobos program is 99.991% of the maximum size of a "classic" "non-Plus" lnfocom story.
Testing: The primary testers for Leather Goddesses of Phobos were Tom Bok, Gary Brennan, Amy Briggs, Max Buxton, Liz Cyr-Jones, Suzanne Frank, and Matt Hillman. In addition, dozens of "outside testers" deserve praise for their help.
Packaging: The package (and its components) was designed by Carl Genatossio and Elizabeth Langosy. The artwork for the 3-D comic (including the cover) is the work of Richard Howell; the 3-D processing was done by Ray Zone. Angela Crews tirelessly learned the ins and outs of scratch-n-sniff while tracking down an affordable scratch-n-sniff printer.
The artwork for the Leather Goddesses of Phobos poster was done by Ken Barr.
Thanks to Brian Moriarty for the idea of including a 3-D comic. Thanks to Ed Black for implementing the "boss key" feature in the IBM version. Thanks to Dave Lebling for some timely technical assistance. And thanks to Jon Palace for a host of things, but especially for his help in "sensualizing" the text, and for being a front-line defense against scheming marketeers.