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Alabaster

Alabaster is an experiment in open authorship: a piece of interactive fiction with conversation text contributed by a number of different authors in response to an introduction written by the project's…

5 June 2009

Alabaster is an adventure developed by Emily Short, released 5 June 2009 on Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser.

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What Alabaster is

Alabaster is an adventure game developed by Emily Short and released in 2009. It is available on Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser. It runs on Inform.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Queen has told you to return with her heart in a box. Snow White has made you promise to make other arrangements. Now that you're alone in the forest, it's hard to know which of the two women to trust. The Queen is certainly a witch—but her stepdaughter may be something even more horrible...
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Alabaster launched on 5 June 2009, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, Infamous, The Sims 3 and Prototype.

Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, Infamous, The Sims 3, Prototype.

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When did Alabaster come out?
Alabaster was released on 5 June 2009 for Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser.

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