Visible Planetfall is now available to all

October's offering is Planetfall, Steve Meretzky's first title. As usual, the source code repository is also live, licensed with the open-source MIT license. In addition, I've posted high-resolution scans of the original folio manual and feelies. The package promises space comedy. Notice that the Infidel package refers to Planetfall as "Infocom's nuu SF laf klasic". And yes, Meretzky is a dab hand with a tension-breaking joke. The mutants lap up the chemical, howling with delight. One immediately grows three new mouths. But I'm not sure Planetfall can be described as a comedy. The mutants are about to tear you apart, after all. The overall story is a carefully-graded arc. Tedium, then a shocking disaster (although the game doesn't narrate your shock or fear in any way); then the reveal of the abandoned, decaying facility that will be your new world. A lonely struggle to sustain yourself. The slow realization of the catastrophe which engulfed Resida and is now advancing through your…