Narcissus Fated by 8LeggedMenace

A Choose Your Own Adventure about Narcissus trying to avoid his fate.

Author's note:
This game was made as a final project for a 100 level Classical Mythology class back in 2014. The assignment was to take a piece of classical mythology and remix it in a new medium. I'd already made a game with Quest earlier that year so my co-author and I decided to make a Choose Your Own Adventure comedy about Narcissus. We had a great time writing it and filled it to the brim with references to the class material. Watching the class actually play through it was a blast.

I was VERY glad at the time that we went with the Choose Your Own Adventure format instead of the parser based text-adventure. It meant that players actually got to see the content and freed us up to spend more time focusing on writing paths rather than bug-hunting the parser. It taught me some important lessons about the value of scope. As for the writing, I was reading a lot of Pratchett at the time and I can definitely feel his influence creeping into my sentence structure. In hindsight, we definitely got too punchy with jokes about Tiresias's blindness. Were I writing it today, I definitely would not have gone there but that's the advantage of age and hindsight.

Legacy Player: The "Play online" link above uses the new Quest Viva WebPlayer, which is currently in Beta. In case of issues, you can try the old WebPlayer.

Review by CloudlessKnight
19 Aug 2022
Beautiful, I loved learning about Greco-Roman myths as a kid, and the writing is great, you've actually done research (wish that class had been an option for me, sounds fun).
Hit a Bad End, though, so I'll try and solve it later.
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