SherbyNet - /page/wikibook/entry.mu

Micron Document

<!DOCTYPE html>

<title>Photopia</title>

</head>

<span id="openzim-page-title" class="mw-page-title-main"><i>Photopia</i></span>

</h1>

</header>

/* start https://en.wikipedia.org/ */

.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}

/* end https://en.wikipedia.org/ */

</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1274896928">

/* start https://en.wikipedia.org/ */

.mw-parser-output .ib-video-game .infobox-label{white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em}.mw-parser-output .ib-video-game .infobox-above{font-style:italic;font-size:125%}

/* end https://en.wikipedia.org/ */

</style><table class="infobox ib-video-game hproduct"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn">Photopia</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Video_game_developer" title="Video game developer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Adam_Cadre" title="Adam Cadre">Adam Cadre</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Video_game_publisher" title="Video game publisher">Publisher(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Self published</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Video_game_designer" class="mw-redirect" title="Video game designer">Designer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Adam_Cadre" title="Adam Cadre">Adam Cadre</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Game_engine" title="Game engine">Engine</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Z-machine" title="Z-machine">Z-machine</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Computing_platform" title="Computing platform">Platform(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Z-machine" title="Z-machine">Z-machine</a>, glulx</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Release</th><td class="infobox-data">1998</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Video_game_genre" title="Video game genre">Genre(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Interactive_fiction" title="Interactive fiction">interactive fiction</a>, <a href="Adventure_game" title="Adventure game">adventure</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Mode(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Single_player" class="mw-redirect" title="Single player">Single player</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

<p><i><b>Photopia</b></i> is a piece of literature by <a href="Adam_Cadre" title="Adam Cadre">Adam Cadre</a> rendered in the form of <a href="Interactive_fiction" title="Interactive fiction">interactive fiction</a>, and written in <a href="Inform" title="Inform">Inform</a>. It has received both praise and criticism for its heavy focus on fiction rather than on interactivity.<sup id="cite_ref-xyz_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-xyz-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It won first place in the 1998 <a href="Interactive_Fiction_Competition" title="Interactive Fiction Competition">Interactive Fiction Competition</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

<i>Photopia</i> has few puzzles and a linear structure,<sup id="cite_ref-playthisthing_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-playthisthing-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> allowing the player no way to alter the eventual conclusion but maintaining the illusion of non-linearity.

</p>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Development">Development</h2></div>

<p>Adam Cadre has stated that <i>Photopia</i> was heavily influenced by <i><a href="The_Sweet_Hereafter_(film)" title="The Sweet Hereafter (film)">The Sweet Hereafter</a></i>, a film that prominently features a babysitter and a bus crash.<sup id="cite_ref-phaq_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-phaq-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>He submitted <i>Photopia</i> to the 1998 Interactive Fiction Competition pseudonymously. He felt that his previous game <i><a href="I-0_(video_game)" title="I-0 (video game)">I-0</a></i> would inspire certain expectations in players, since in that game the playable character is a young college student who could be instructed to undress. Years later, he dropped the pretense that there was a real "Opal O'Donnell" who had submitted Photopia for him, stating: "it started to bother me that v1.0 of the Phaq had lies in it."<sup id="cite_ref-phaq_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-phaq-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2></div>

<p>At the 1998 <a href="XYZZY_Awards" title="XYZZY Awards">XYZZY Awards</a>, the game won in the <a href="XYZZY_Award_for_Best_Writing" class="mw-redirect" title="XYZZY Award for Best Writing">Best Writing</a> and <a href="XYZZY_Award_for_Best_Story" class="mw-redirect" title="XYZZY Award for Best Story">Best Story</a> categories, and was nominated for Best Game, Best NPCs, Best Individual Puzzle, Best Individual NPC, and Best Use of Medium.<sup id="cite_ref-ifdb_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ifdb-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1999, XYZZYnews gave the game a positive review, calling it an "amazing piece of work".<sup id="cite_ref-xyz_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-xyz-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2007, <a href="Emily_Short" title="Emily Short">Emily Short</a> described the game as "hugely influential" and "ground-breaking."<sup id="cite_ref-ifdb_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ifdb-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2012, while reviewing Winter Lake's <i><a href="Rat_Chaos" title="Rat Chaos">Rat Chaos</a></i>, Short <a href="Hyperlink" title="Hyperlink">hyperlinked</a> <i>Photopia</i> as a game that "plays with <a href="Agency_(philosophy)" title="Agency (philosophy)">agency</a> not in the usual ways [...] discovering you have none."<sup id="cite_ref-Short_2012_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Short_2012-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>In 2015, the game won first place in the Interactive Fiction Database's "Interactive Fiction Top 50 of all time" contest.<sup id="cite_ref-ifdb_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ifdb-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div>

/* start https://en.wikipedia.org/ */

.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}

/* end https://en.wikipedia.org/ */

</style><div class="reflist">

/* start https://en.wikipedia.org/ */

.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("./mw/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("./mw/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("./mw/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("./mw/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}

/* end https://en.wikipedia.org/ */

</style><cite id="CITEREFBarnwell1999" class="citation web cs1">Barnwell, Brendan (1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/magazines/XYZZYnews/XYZZY18.TXT">"XYZZYnews - Issue #18"</a>. <i>farchive.heanet.ie</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 9,</span> 2017</span>.</cite></span>

</li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ifcomp.org/comp98/">"4th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition"</a>. <i>ifcomp.org</i>. 1998<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 31,</span> 2013</span>.</cite></span>

</li>

<li id="cite_note-playthisthing-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-playthisthing_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFTherum2008" class="citation web cs1">Therum (2008-03-24). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081013065546/http://playthisthing.com/photopia">"Photopia: Taking the term "Interactive Fiction" to a new level"</a>. <i>Play This Thing</i>. <a href="Manifesto_Games" title="Manifesto Games">Manifesto Games</a>, Inc. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://playthisthing.com/photopia">the original</a> on October 13, 2008<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">October 30,</span> 2008</span>.</cite></span>

</li>

<li id="cite_note-phaq-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-phaq_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-phaq_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFCadre" class="citation web cs1"><a href="Adam_Cadre" title="Adam Cadre">Cadre, Adam</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://adamcadre.ac/content/phaq.txt">"Photopia Phaq, v2.1"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">June 2,</span> 2013</span>.</cite></span>

</li>

<li id="cite_note-ifdb-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ifdb_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ifdb_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ifdb_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=ju778uv5xaswnlpl">"Photopia"</a>. <i>IFDB</i>. Michael J. Roberts. 2007-10-21. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081024045537/http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=ju778uv5xaswnlpl">Archived</a> from the original on October 24, 2008<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 9,</span> 2017</span>.</cite></span>

</li>

<li id="cite_note-Short_2012-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Short_2012_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFShort2012" class="citation web cs1">Short, Emily (November 8, 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://emshort.blog/2012/11/08/rat-chaos-j-chastain/">"Rat Chaos (j chastain)"</a>. <i>Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling</i>. <a href="WordPress" title="WordPress">WordPress</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">April 12,</span> 2017</span>.</cite></span>

</li>

</ol></div></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div>

<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=ju778uv5xaswnlpl"><i>Photopia</i></a> in the <a href="Interactive_Fiction_Database" title="Interactive Fiction Database">Interactive Fiction Database</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mobygames.com/game/photopia"><i>Photopia</i></a> at <a href="MobyGames" title="MobyGames">MobyGames</a></li></ul></div><div><div class="zim-footer">

This article is issued from <a class="external text" title="Last edited on 2025-05-18" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?title=Photopia&oldid=1291056017">Wikipedia</a>. The text is available under <a class="external text" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en">Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0</a> unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

</div>

</div></div>

</div>

</main>

</div>

</body></html>