A Bloody Life

aka: A Bloody Life: A Day In The Life Of An Unfortunate Physician Caught Up In A Soap Opera
Moby ID: 158519

Description

A Bloody Life is a short piece of interactive fiction set in a hospital, sorry an institute, specifically the Richard Aloysius Thompson Honoris Institute of Oncology, Molecular Gastro-Enterology, Genetic Pathology and lots more.

The player explores the rooms and departments of the institute looking for a mystery to solve. Though this is a humorous game there are many ways to die, in fact the author recommends that players do so because "A lot of them are more interesting than the actual gameplay"

The game has forty-seven locations and a maximum point score of 1020 points. The player can move from one location to the next by using the direction keys N,E,S,W or the arrow keys where the Up Arrow is North.

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6 People (1 developers, 5 thanks)

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  • A. J. Cronin (an author who wrote piles of books about doctors which vacillated on the edge of sentimentality without really falling over. Kudos to him for managing to do that)
  • The boys who maintain the ftp.gmd.de archive of text adventures

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Game added by piltdown_man.

Game added March 26, 2021. Last modified February 22, 2023.