Invisible Parties
Stripped to its core, Invisible parties is an escape game created by Sam Kabo Ashwell. However, it's about much more than this. Enticed, against your better judgement, to come to a party, you have been trapped in a "tangle" a tightly packed group of simulated locations, each having the appearance of a specific type of social gathering. A wedding, a wake, an office party, and so forth. As you move through these locations, so does you lover, Jave. But the tangle obstructs contact with her, and although you can locate ways out, you cannot take them. Can you "disrupt" the tangle sufficiently to escape? Play Invisible Parties here.
Play does not rely on the traditional IF props similar to keys, hidden doors, secrets to be discovered, but on learning to use Jave's and yours skills to discover how the tangle's logic at points where it is weak. There are many possible solutions, and although all are essentially identical in their logic, the detail of each is different. The essential challenge is to work out the structure and "rules" of the unusual environment you are in, and then work out how to break them down and escape.
What stands out most of the game is the creativity of the world. There are limits to how far you can actually interact with objects in the game however. Overall the game runs very smoothly. I didn't encounter any bugs or anything that affected the game play. I found this a very satisfying and impressive game. It's buffed in all the right ways, and rewarding to play. Highly recommended to anyone who is interested in a good mix of puzzle that also has a fascinating story, and especially in writing, where the story is very descriptive allowing a good mental picture of the game to be developed.
To the player the game is pretty simple. The way to interact is similar to Zork or Adventure. It's text based using the common commands that a player would see in the majority of interactive fiction games. Below I have attached a screen cast of me playing Invisible Parties. I hope you enjoy your experience to the game just as much as I did.
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