Famed interactive fiction writer Andrew Plotkin brings My Secret Hideout to the iPad
The secret is out of the bag
One of the central figures in the modern interactive fiction community Andrew Plotkin has brought new title My Secret Hideout to the iPad.
According to its App Store description, My Secret Hideout "is not a game. It is an interactive toy... or rather poem... or artwork..."
The app tasks you with dragging leaves onto the branches of a tree, in order to increase the size of a treehouse and alter its description.
Once you're happy with your treehouse, you can save it and mail it to your buddies for their approval.
It's big, very big
My Secret Hideout has approximately a googol of possible combinations to play about with. (That's 10100 combinations, if you want to be all mathematical about it.)
Anthony Usher
Anthony is a Liverpool, UK-based writer who fell in love with gaming while playing Super Mario World on his SNES back in the early '90s. When he isn't busy grooming his beard, you can find him replaying Resident Evil or Final Fantasy VII for the umpteenth time. Aside from gaming, Anthony likes hiking, MMA, and pretending he’s a Viking.