You are SpamZapper 3.1
Awarded 9th place in IF Comp 2021!
DISTINGUISH TRUTH AND SCAMS IN OVER 130 UNIQUE EMAILS • PROTECT THE INBOX FROM URBAN LEGENDS • EXCHANGE WITTY REPARTEE WITH YOUR PLUGIN COWORKERS • CROSS SWORDS WITH A DEADLY EMAIL WORM • LEARN WAY TOO MUCH ABOUT YOUR USER'S FRIENDS
NAME: SpamZapper 3.1
LIKES: Job security
HATES: Hidden messages
Your job is clear: zap spam and approve good emails. But why is such an easy job so stressful? And why was an email client plugin made to feel stress at all?
In this game, you will:
- Experience a stark, nostalgia-free glimpse of the year 2000 in its ugliness
- Learn how to destroy vampires
- Learn how to tell if an email attachment is a virus by simply staring at it with intense concentration
- Refuse to convert to Catharism
- Attempt to violate OS-level memory protection
- Witness the end of your career as a horticultural assistant before it even begins
- Body-slam a credit card bill
- Discover how talented your co-workers really are
NAME: New Mail Chimes 1.0
LIKES: Reading
HATES: Misspeaking
You could just be yourself… but if you could instantly change your outward personality, shouldn't you rather be whatever the other person needs you to be?
A game recommended if you like:
- 3 in Three
- Digital: A Love Story
- Start Again: A Prologue
- Secret Little Haven
- Chroma
- Digital message-based mysteries
- Late-90’s email fads
- Late-90’s techno-spirituality
- Schemes that are so zany, they might just work
