Dancing with Fear

Dancing with Fear is a parser-based interactive fiction I wrote for the 2017 edition of the IFComp (Interactive Fiction Competition). It made the prestigious Top Ten, placing 8th in a very contested year, full of entries of excellent quality - so I couldn’t be happier about it. It takes place during one single night in a swanky party in the Caribbean, which our protagonist has to survive as an improptu spy.

"Salomé Vélez, a vedette fallen on hard times, finds herself enmeshed in a tangle of political intrigue, romance and betrayal in a Caribbean republic. Torn between her love for a smuggler, the lust of a corrupt policeman and the machinations of a Soviet intelligence operative, the protagonist navigates the dangers of a high-society party on the eve of revolution. As she tries to survive through that fateful night, the memories of her past will come to haunt her. Controversial at the time for its depiction of Cold War politics and morally ambiguous protagonist…”

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