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"Stuck Mid-Game: A Weekend of Prolonged Frustration" by Marnie Parker is an Inform game-in-progress that she bills as "an interactive science fiction mystery novelette." The year is 2049, and you've set aside a whole weekend to play a classic IF game. You must first contact an online friend to get a hint for playing the game, but your conversation is abruptly interrupted. When you reestablish contact, you discover that your friend has suddenly disappeared. Although you've had a long online relationship with your friend, you must now delve into his real life to discover who had a motive to either kidnap him or kill him. And your personal agenda for tracking him down, of course, also includes being able to get the hint you need to finish the classic IF game you're playing! Gameplay is set over the course of a single weekend, with a small number of rooms and reportedly difficult puzzles. "Stuck Mid-Game" will be freeware and has an anticipated release date of early 1996.
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