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A Change in the Weather

Walking away from a picnic, you are suddenly caught in a country storm. You must protect a bridge from being destroyed. A game by Andrew Plotkin he describes as his "first serious work of interactive fiction".

31 December 1995

A Change in the Weather is an adventure developed by Andrew Plotkin, released 31 December 1995 on Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser.

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What A Change in the Weather is

A Change in the Weather is an adventure game developed by Andrew Plotkin and released in 1995. It is available on Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser. It runs on Inform.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Walking away from a picnic, you are suddenly caught in a country storm. You must protect a bridge from being destroyed. A game by Andrew Plotkin he describes as his "first serious work of interactive fiction".
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How it plays

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

What it launched against

A Change in the Weather launched on 31 December 1995, within three weeks of Suikoden, Neo Turf Masters, Tales of Phantasia and Loaded.

Released around the same time: Suikoden, Neo Turf Masters, Tales of Phantasia, Loaded.

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When did A Change in the Weather come out?
A Change in the Weather was released on 31 December 1995 for Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser.

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