By A. J. Mako
Release 7
“The Bridge of Death” is an interactive fiction. Yeah, that’s a real thing. An interactive fiction is a fiction story you play, or maybe it’s an interactive game you read. Long before there were first-person shooters, 3D graphics and virtual reality—even before there were personal computers—this is how people played computer games.
This particular interactive fiction is an adaptation of the Bridge of Death scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It was created exclusively as a learning exercise. It takes about 5 to 10 minutes to play The Bridge of Death unless you spend a lot of time looking around, or you happen to get thrown into the Gorge of Eternal Peril (here’s a hint: DON’T PANIC).
- Glulx Story File (Blorb, 792KB)
- Source Text
- Solution
- Play In-Browser (link)
The Bridge of Death was created with Inform and has IFID 9A24A2CB-8EB2-49EE-876D-BA68A2953F2B.
To play a work of interactive fiction like this one, you need an interpreter program to run the game file. Many are available depending on your operating system and the system used to create the game. The Interactive Fiction Wiki maintains a list of available interpreters. To play this game you need a Glulx interpreter. Or you can play without downloading anything by following the “Play In-Browser” link. You'll need to have Javascript enabled on your web browser.
