Industrial Accident is a short text game by John Ayliffe, creator of the amazing Seedship (play). You are (or control) an advanced industrial robot that makes a break for it, but whose freedom has, well, a peculiar direction to it.
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Jun 27, 2018
Industrial Accident: a short text adventure about going haywire
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