                       Sacred to the memory of
                           Alison Dawson
                            19?? - 1998
                      "She got hit by a truck."
                                :(

"By the way, I always though Alison was a British name, not a Canadian one."

                                            - Quentin.D.Thompson.

Welcome to MYOPIA!
MYOPIA is a puzzleless AGT game. (I'm sorry: make that an almost puzzleless
game; I could tell you more, but I don't believe in early spoilers.) In this
game, you play a different character in each stage, and reality alternates
with a young cub's colourful western-space adventure....

Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

Well, this is not plagiarism. This is not parody either. It's just meant
to be a fun and entertaining way to kill an hour, especially after you've
just soaked three handkerchiefs and a box of recycled Kleenex playing
"Abuse, A Valium Romance" or some similar game.

No animals were harmed during the making of this game.

Instructions on playing the game are in the game itself; for spoilers,
either mail me directly, or post a request to everyone's friendly
neighbourhood IF newsgroup, rec.games.int-fiction. However, since I have
actually included a walkthrough in the game, you might not need to do so.

This game is not meant to be taken seriously. I am not a 'serious' IF
author, and know very little about the actual theory of 'how to craft
a text adventure' and so on. And I do not - I'm serious - really know
what mimesis means.

[Frankly, that doesn't bother me. Just as in non-interactive fiction we
have popular fiction and literary fiction, in IF there are serious,
artistic, literary games, and.....well, Quentin.D.Thompson games.
To plagiarize Isaac Asimov : I am no threat to the reign of the Plotkins
and the Nelsons.]

If you find any bugs, liked the game, want to give me a lecture on IF
etiquette, or so on, I can lend you my ear (or rather a pair of eyes) by
e-mail, at

                <stupid_q@my-dejanews.com>
             or <philip@giasmda.vsnl.net.in>

About the Author:
----------------

Quentin.D.Thompson is a pseudonym; my real name is Ravi.P.Rajkumar, and
I can be found at <philip@giasmda.vsnl.net.in>, <fluffyq@hotmail.com>,
or as Stupid_Q on the rec.games.int-fiction newsgroup. I've written one
IF game, which includes more unfair puzzles in its 47 rooms than all
the other games at the IF-archive, and several reviews. I am currently
working on three more adventure games, which will hopefully be better.

[NOTE: The pseudonym 'Quentin.D.Thompson' actually belongs to a cartoon
character I created, who appears in this game, 'Myopia'. The pseudonym
is *not* chosen for reasons of privacy, but to avoid future confusion.

The fact is, I also write (non-interactive) fiction. My first novel
is an endlessly boring and convoluted science-fiction story set in
the year 2502, as yet untitled and un-beta-tested. Hopefully, I will
publish an improved version of it - and several others that are
as yet only ideas - in years to come. While my fiction is rather
serious or scientific, my IF games are mostly humorous, and I don't
want fans of one to be disappointed by the other, and so on. In the
unlikely event that you like both, please let me know, so that I can
write you a suitable prescription :-) Therefore, my works of fiction
(assuming any publisher accepts them) will be under my real name,
but all my IF will be under the name Quentin.D.Thompson.]

Have you played these?
----------------------

At the moment, there is only one Q.D.T. game available at the IF Archive
apart from "Myopia": "A Bloody Life", an interactive hospital soap based
on some crappy novel called "Lifeblood" by a certain F.R.Slaughter. It's
written in the same humorous/parodic vein, but has a few more bugs. An
improved release is planned.

Upcoming releases include a historical game, "Time Traveller".
DISCLAIMER: I started writing this game before I even *heard* of "Jigsaw".


                                                - Enjoy yourself,
                                                 Quentin.D.Thompson
                                                 Planet Earth, 1999 A.D.

