The images above represent significant elements in "Finding Martin."
Friendly emails to the author are welcome, but new versions of the game are no longer possible.
FINDING MARTIN is a text-based adventure game and an interactive time travel story. As a player you'll type short sentences to investigate the mysterious disappearance of an eccentric friend. The game responds to your commands and questions, presenting you with challenges, tools, information, and opportunities. In order to solve certain puzzles, you must to cooperate with your own self on different time-travel trips to the same event.
This game was written by Gayla Wennstrom in 2005, and was named as a finalist for the 2005 XYZZY Awards in the categories of "Best Game" and "Best Puzzles." Its style resembles Infocom's "Zork" and "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" text adventure games, which are the copyrighted property of Activision and not affiliated with this site.
"Finding Martin" can be played for free by downloading the "HTML TADS Player Kit" from http://www.tads.org/tads2.htm. Once you have a player's kit, you can download the game itself here: Finding Martin.
Below are links you can click on, walk-throughs that can help if you get stuck while playing the game. But these contain spoilers, so it's probably more fun to consult with a playing partner. Feel free to ask the author if you need a hint.
If you just want to read some of the story online without playing the game, check out the transcripts by clicking on one of the transcript links below. Then use the back button on your browser to return to this page and click on the next transcript.
