Losing Your Grip

Rain and mud.

Those are your first solid memories. Rain pouring down on your head, filling your eyes. Mud beneath your feet, filling your shoes. Other details slowly filter in. The trees surrounding you. The leaden skies above. The chill wind cutting through your clothes with ease.

Shelter would be a good beginning.

Losing Your Grip is a piece of interactive fiction, which is a fancy way of saying "text adventure." It is long--the interactive fiction equivalent of a novel. It is also intended to be challenging.

If you haven't played text adventures lately (or ever), you may be in for a surprise. People have been writing new games and working on better interfaces. To the right is a small screenshot of Losing Your Grip running in Win95; similar interfaces exist for OS/2 and MacOS.

Losing Your Grip used to be shareware, after a fashion. However, I am no longer accepting registration of the game. As you can finish the game without registering, or indeed without being asked to register, I don't think that will be too much of a problem. You can download the game's "feelies," which I sent out when people registered the game. The archive includes the key file which unlocks the game's hints.

Picture of newspaper ad
The game was written using TADS, and thus runs on many systems. If you already have a TADS interpreter, you need only download the .gam file. Alternatively, you can download Losing Your Grip for a specific OS:

Macintosh
MS-DOS
Windows 95/98/NT/&c.

You can also read the five-star review at Baf's Guide to the Interactive Fiction Archive and see how the game has been rated by other players. If you've played the game, feel free to rate it yourself.

And finally, if you're interested in what the source code to Losing Your Grip looks like, be sure to download it.

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