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Galatea (2000), interactive fiction noteworthy for its innovative conversation system, by Emily Short. Winner of 2000 Xyzzy Award for Best NPC and Best of Show in the IF Art Show 2000.

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• Annotated 'Galatea' (Emily Short)

  http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/gallery/galatea/index.html
  Play on-line using Java, with links to background, articles about the game, and hints and walkthroughs. [Requires frames.]

• Emily Short: Galatea

  http://home.mindspring.com/~emshort/galatea.htm
  Author's page about the game, with background on its making and thoughts on multilinear interactive fiction and non-player character conversation.

• IF-Review: Dreams, Hubris, and Getting Away with Both

  http://www.ministryofpeace.com/if-review/reviews/20010126.html
  "Play this game. Then, write your own. Pour your heart and soul into it. Cast it upon the waters, and you may indeed receive it back a hundredfold." By Jonathan Rosebaugh.

• iFiction: Galatea

  http://www.ifiction.org/games/play.php?cat=46&game=369&mode=html
  Play Galatea on-line.

• SPAG Review

  http://www.sparkynet.com/spag/g.html#galatea
  "It's unquestionable that this character represents a quantum leap--in intelligence and in vividness of personality--and that the author did it with essentially the tools that every author has. Designers, consider the goalposts moved." By Duncan Stevens.

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