Burst Forth! by Caelifer

This game was added to the Sandpit for the following reason: Too short

This game is too short to be put into a category. Players expect games not to be all over within a few seconds.

Sandpit

Quest Gamebook

You start as a seed that will burst forth from the ground, growing, adapting, trying to survive in your immediate surrounding, and coping up with other lifeforms beside you.

You will interact with the soil itself, with other plants, visiting insects and animals, the weather, sudden calamity, and maybe some humans!

You think it's easy to grow? Let the cycle of life educate you.

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Review MisterPibb316

22 May 2015

The story is told from the point-of-view of a sprouting seed, and it does so quite naturally (no pun intended.) It is indeed short, but there are many non-sandpit games on this site that are of similar length to this one.

This game would be at least 3-star worthy if: in addition to being a couple dozen pages longer, it offered more choices/interactivity. Given how charmingly modest the narrative is, it's a shame I can't give a higher score.

Seems to be one of Quest's many abandoned projects that had potential.

Review ClaytonKO

22 May 2015

That's actually pretty neat. you should consider making this an rpg or simulator as a text adventure instead of a gamebook.