Galatea (video game)

This article is about the interactive fiction video game released in 2000. For other uses, see Galatea (disambiguation).
Galatea
Developer(s)Emily Short
Publisher(s)Self published
Designer(s)Emily Short
EngineZ-machine
Platform(s)Z-machine
Release2000
Genre(s)Interactive fiction
Mode(s)Single-player

Galatea is an interactive fiction video game by Emily Short featuring a modern rendition of the Greek myth of Galatea, the sculpture of a woman that gained life. It took "Best of Show" in the 2000 IF Art Show[1][2] and won a XYZZY Award for Best Non-Player Character.[2][3] The game displays an unusually rich approach to non-player character dialogue and diverts from the typical puzzle-solving in interactive fiction: gameplay consists entirely of interacting with a single character in a single room.

Galatea is licensed under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 US license.[4]

  1. ^ Parker, Marnie; Gilles Duchesne. "2000 IF Art Show". IF Art Show. Marnie Parker, Gilles Duchesne. Archived from the original on 2007-06-06. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
  2. ^ a b Montfort, Nick. Galatea Archived 2013-01-13 at the Wayback Machine. nickm.com. Accessed 23 December 2012.
  3. ^ "Emily Short: Galatea". Electronic Literature Collection Volume One. Electronic Literature Organization. Archived from the original on 2009-01-27. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
  4. ^ Short, Emily (20 January 2007). "Portfolio". Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling. WordPress. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2015.