''Uncle Zebulon's Will'' is a 1995 work of

interactive fiction '' Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, is software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Works in this form can be understood as literary narratives, either in the ...

by Magnus Olsson, in which the player-character plays the nephew of a crackpot scientist, exploring his home and solving magic-based puzzles. It won the

TADS Text Adventure Development System (TADS) is a prototype-based domain-specific programming language and set of standard libraries for creating interactive fiction (IF) games. History The original TADS 1 was released by High Energy Software a ...

category at the inaugural 1995

Interactive Fiction Competition The Interactive Fiction Competition (also known as IFComp) is one of several annual competitions for works of interactive fiction. It has been held since 1995. It is intended for fairly short games, as judges are only allowed to spend two hours pl ...

. The game was included on

Activision Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It serves as the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several subsidiary studios. Activision is one o ...

's 1996 commercial release of ''

Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom ''Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom'' is a collection of 33 computer games from interactive fiction pioneer Infocom, and the top 6 winners of the 1995 Interactive Fiction Competition, released in 1996. All 39 games are combined on a ...

''.

References

Game entry at Baf's guideGame entry at IFWiki
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