Counterfeit Monkey
Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship. Since then, Atlantis has…
Counterfeit Monkey is an adventure developed by Emily Short, released 31 December 2012 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Counterfeit Monkey is
Counterfeit Monkey is an adventure game developed by Emily Short and released in 2012. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Inform.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship. Since then, Atlantis has been the world's greatest center for linguistic manipulation, designing letter inserters, word synthesizers, the diminutive affixer, and a host of other tools for converting one thing to another. Inventors worldwide pay heavily for that technology, which is where a smuggler and industrial espionage agent such as yourself can really clean up. Unfortunately, the Bureau of Orthography has taken a serious interest in your activities lately. Your face has been recorded and your cover is…
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Counterfeit Monkey launched on 31 December 2012, within three weeks of DmC: Devil May Cry, Game Dev Tycoon, ArcheAge and Kentucky Route Zero.
Released around the same time: DmC: Devil May Cry, Game Dev Tycoon, ArcheAge, Kentucky Route Zero.
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