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Can you solve the bizarre mystery about what happened to Martin? This journey will take you beyond the limits of normal reality, into the worlds of fantasy and science fiction. Time travel and a shaman's quest await you in this interactive fiction text-based adventure game. Are you brave enough to meet the challenge of "Finding Martin"? ... The "Finding Martin" game was named as a finalist in the 2005 XYZZY Awards in the categories of "Best Game" and "Best Puzzles." The game is written in a style similar to Infocom's "Zork" and "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" text adventure games, which are the copyrighted property of Activision and not affiliated with this site. Free game download: Game Installer Click on the above link to run the self-installing Windows executable for "Finding Martin". Installation will create a menu option on your computer that you can use to play the game. "Finding Martin" was written using the Text Adventure Development System (TADS) by Michael J. Roberts. For more information about TADS and how you can play this game on a non-Windows operating system, click here: http://www.tads.org/ For those who prefer to play TADS games using their own TADS interpreter, right-click to save this file: Finding Martin "gam" file . For best results on Windows systems, be sure to use a TADS interpreter more recent than 2.59, such as the combined Tads 2 & Tads 3 interpreter available from the Player Kit link at http://www.tads.org/t3dl.htm You can read the story about "Finding Martin" in a non-interactive piece of fiction. Warning, this contains spoilers for those who may also be playing the game. Click here to read the story: Read the Story Friendly e-mail to the author is welcome at [email protected] Want to visit some other interesting web pages? Just click on one of these images:
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Walk-through links for "Finding Martin" are provided further down on this page. Not sure if you want to download yet? That's OK, you can try it out first by playing online! The online play for "Finding Martin" is complete except for the "game save and restore" feature that is available if the game is installed on your local computer. Online play is made possible through Jetty, a Java-based interpreter for TADS2 written by Dan Shiovitz. For more information about this interpreter and how you can use it to play other TADS2 games online, click here: http://www.drizzle.com/~dans/if/jetty/ |
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In the mood to cheat? A walk-through or a transcript will give you step-by-step instructions on how to win the game. It's usually more fun to play with your friends or to send an e-mail asking for a hint, but you also have the option get a direct spoiler by reading one of the walk-through or transcript files below. Right-click to save these "txt" files on your computer.
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