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From: mkinyon@peabody.iusb.indiana.edu (Michael Kinyon)
Subject: Playtester available immediately
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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1993 17:39:50 GMT
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		*** Playtester Available Immediately ***

Michael Kinyon, undisputed champion playtester, would like to take this
opportunity to announce his immediate availability to test any new 
interactive fiction game.  Having recently completed his highly
publicized world tour, he is ready to return to his computer and 
begin testing once more.

		       	** Testimonials **

Here are things that well-known game authors didn't say about Michael Kinyon.
But no doubt, they wish they had.

"Our games wouldn't be what they are today if Michael hadn't played them.
He is certainly my first choice for testing The Legend Lives.  And The Horror 
of Rylvania is much more terrifying now than before he tested it.
Wouldn't you agree, Baggett?"  
"Yes, I would, and I would also like to mention his contributions to U.U.
Zero.  Because of his insulting remarks about the yellow powder puzzle, I was
able to turn that game into something truly first-rate.  Too bad he didn't
solve the completely trivial oar/snake puzzle by himself, though.  Oh, by
the way, I'm not Baggett, I'm Leary.  You're Baggett."
"Are you sure?  I could have sworn..."
			-- Dave Baggett and Dave Leary, Adventions

"I'm going to be sure to get Michael to test Unnkulian Unventures III.
At least, if I ever stop playing Klondike."
			-- Bruce Nebel, Adventions

"Thanks to Michael, Enhanced has more of that combined Ingmar 
Bergman/cyberpunk type of quality that Dominik and I were looking for. 
Before Michael came along, it had more of a, well, Jerry Lewis/Las Vegas
showgirl type of quality."
			-- Hans Persson, SophistiChaos

"I remember when I was thinking about designing a new game, and Kinyon
suggested that I write one in which the player had already died.  Thus was
Perdition's Flames born.  I also appreciated his help with the two
calculus problems on the driver's license test.  If only he had been
around back when Deep Space Drifter was being designed; the part that takes
place on the planet wouldn't have been half as annoying as it is now.
Kinyon has even helped me improve TADS itself.  Originally I wanted to 
write it in BASIC, but he talked me out of it."
			-- Michael J. Roberts, High Energy Software

"Due to Michael's careful constructiv criticism, I was able to corect
all of the speling misteaks in Lost."
			-- Jeffrey Hersh, Cookies Under The Floor

"Michael helped me avoid being sued by all the people I used as characters
in Save Princeton, especially the jock.  And of course, it was Michael who
suggested that I should create Modernism, with its over 300 different rooms
and 20 different characters."
			-- Jacob Weinstein

"You know, before I met Michael, Curses was just a game about a person
trying to find a tourist map.  Now it is an extremely large game about a
person trying to find a tourist map.  Originally, I had wanted the whole
thing to take place in an English music hall, but Michael introduced me
to both T.S. Eliot and the Oxford History of England.  My life was changed
forever."
			-- Graham Nelson

"If I weren't so concerned about self-promotion, publicity, and packaging
instead of the actual quality of the game, I would have let Michael playtest
Avalon."
			-- Gerry Kevin Wilson, Vertigo

"Michael is like a god to us.  We are content to bask in the glory of his
achievements."
			-- Liz Cyr Jones, Neil Guy, Adam Thornton,
			   Kevin Bolduan, and other playtesters


Michael Kinyon	
Dept of Mathematics & Comp. Sci.    phone: (219)-237-4240
Indiana University South Bend	    fax: (219)-237-4538
South Bend, IN 46634 USA	    mkinyon@peabody.iusb.indiana.edu
'"Bonvolu alsendi la pordiston - lausajne estas rano en mia bideo", and 
I think we all know what that means.' - Rimmer

