As non-fiction, such work might not necessarily allow multiple endings (since the journalistic viewpoint is concerned with discussing not what might happened, but what actually did), but this might ultimately be a strength rather than a weakness, as the sense of inevitability as the single ending approaches could be particularly powerful. Considerato uno dei primi giochi "moderni" a raggiungere gli alti standard imposti dai migliori titoli della Infocom Slouching Towards Bedlam (2003). It is a collaboration between American authors Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster. ClubFloyd Transcript: Slouching Towards Bedlam by Star C. Foster and Daniel Ravipinto As played on ifMUD on June 27, 2015. We have a melancholic view of history, in which moments of utopian potential are consistently being snuffed out in the name of "order" and "tradition," the very values, in other words, which Didion spent much of her time in the 1960s eulogizing. 4. The NPCs are a little flat. The concept for the game itself came from a trip I had recently taken to England. The year is 1885. A rich Victorian steam-punk setting, low-key but intriguing NPCs, atmospheric prose, and a plot that gives the player an unusual amount of free choice: it's little wonder that this piece won the 2003 IF Competition by the healthiest margin ever.