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Shade (Video Game)
- 88 statements
- 16 feature instances
- 6 referencing feature instances
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Shade is a one-room Interactive Fiction game made by Andrew Plotkin in 2000. It takes place in the player character's apartment the night before a planned trip to an arts festival. Your ostensible goals are to complete your household chores and make sure that you have everything ready for your trip. Of course, things become more complicated later on...To say anything more would spoil this game's unique playing experience; in fact, most of the tropes listed below are major spoilers in name alone, so it's strongly recommended to play through the game at least once before reading them (and the YMMV page).You can download the game here or play it online here. | |
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| Shade (Video Game) | isPartOf |
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| Shade (Video Game) / int_22294000 | type |
Sarcastic Title | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_22294000 | comment |
Sarcastic Title: The game's title is "Shade," the only thing you have none of, as you are stranded in the middle of the desert under a blazing sun. | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_22294000 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_22294000 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Shade (Video Game) / int_2bc48235 | type |
Dream Apocalypse | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_2bc48235 | comment |
Dream Apocalypse: Made even creepier by how you seem to actually be exulting in smashing the remnants of your doomed dream midway through the game. | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_2bc48235 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_2bc48235 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Shade (Video Game) / int_3b0bd0ab | type |
Thirsty Desert | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_3b0bd0ab | comment |
Thirsty Desert: Where you plan on heading for the Death Valley Om, and where you've been slowly wasting away for the entirety of the game. | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_3b0bd0ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_3b0bd0ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Shade (Video Game) / int_3b0bd0ab | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_465b8fcd | type |
Revealing Continuity Lapse | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_465b8fcd | comment |
Revealing Continuity Lapse: The aforementioned changing plant, which serves as foreshadowing that the entire apartment is a hallucination and you're actually in the desert. | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_465b8fcd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_465b8fcd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Shade (Video Game) / int_504e271f | type |
But Thou Must! | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_504e271f | comment |
But Thou Must!: Either you do the actions required to advance the plot, or you stay stuck until you do. | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_504e271f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_504e271f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Shade (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | type |
Guide Dang It! | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | comment |
Guide Dang It!: In the middle section of the game, it becomes extremely difficult to figure out what you're supposed to be doing when everything in the apartment starts bursting into piles of sand, especially when interacting with it seems to do nothing. Slightly subverted in that there is one in-game clue - the to-do list, which now changes to reflect the next area to turn into sand. However, by this point in the game, it will have been so long since interacting with that item, it's likely you forgot it was even still there and looked up a guide instead. | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Shade (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_7916f22e | type |
Creepy Changing Painting | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_7916f22e | comment |
Creepy Changing Painting: Over the course of the game, your hyacinth plant turns into a spider plant, then a fern, and finally a cactus. | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_7916f22e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_7916f22e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Shade (Video Game) / int_7916f22e | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_7cd0ddf2 | type |
Last Place You Look | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_7cd0ddf2 | comment |
Last Place You Look: Your airplane tickets will always be in the last of three possible locations you search. | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_7cd0ddf2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_7cd0ddf2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Shade (Video Game) / int_7cd0ddf2 | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_8c83208f | type |
You Can't Get Ye Flask | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_8c83208f | comment |
You Can't Get Ye Flask: Some dialogue options are a bit confusing. | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_8c83208f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_8c83208f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Shade (Video Game) / int_8e3b5b4d | type |
Minimalist Cast | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_8e3b5b4d | comment |
Minimalist Cast: You are the only character in the game, with the possible exception of the small figure that appears when your apartment finally crumbles away. | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_8e3b5b4d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_8e3b5b4d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Shade (Video Game) / int_8e3b5b4d | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: Your thirst at the beginning of the game, the radio broadcast about people missing in the desert, the helicopter you hear passing over your apartment... The plant on your windowsill changes repeatedly, going from a hyacinth to a spider plant to a cactus, with no mention of this made by the protagonist. It also gets drier and drier as the game progresses, even after you water it. Your refusal to draw the shade on the window, with the comment that "you do not want the dark." Similarly, attempting to open the front door when the taxi is outside leads the game to say, "You do not want that." | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Shade (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1 | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_bef696dd | type |
Mind Screw | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_bef696dd | comment |
Mind Screw: Okay, you're most likely suffering from a near-death hallucination in the desert, but what's up with the shadow that tries to hide from you, is harmed if you so much as speak to it, and says "it's my turn now" when it's supposedly "dead"? | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_bef696dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_bef696dd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Shade (Video Game) / int_c3c18143 | type |
Hope Spot | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_c3c18143 | comment |
Hope Spot: You find yourself back in an intact apartment after seemingly turning almost everything in it to sand, and you hear the sound of your taxi ride to the airport pulling up outside. Except that when you try to do anything, your entire apartment vanishes, leaving you stranded in the desert. | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_c3c18143 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_c3c18143 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Shade (Video Game) / int_c3c18143 | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_f314f8c4 | type |
Traveling at the Speed of Plot | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_f314f8c4 | comment |
Traveling at the Speed of Plot: The taxi doesn't show up until the very end, when your Dying Dream has pretty much crumbled to pieces. | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_f314f8c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_f314f8c4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Shade (Video Game) / int_f314f8c4 | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_f6f24e4b | type |
Disguised Horror Story | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_f6f24e4b | comment |
Disguised Horror Story: Starts out as a simple search for your plane tickets, but when sand begins pouring from every crevice in your apartment, things quickly begin going downhill. | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_f6f24e4b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) / int_f6f24e4b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shade (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
| Shade | seeAlso |
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| Shade (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dying Dream / int_d5b471fa | |
| Shade (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Interactive Fiction / int_d5b471fa | |
| Shade (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Revealing Continuity Lapse / int_d5b471fa | |
| Shade (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Shattering the Illusion / int_d5b471fa | |
| Shade (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Video Games of 2000-2004 / int_d5b471fa |
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