A Change in the Weather

A Change in the Weather is a 1995 interactive fiction (IF) video game.

A Change in the Weather
Developer(s)	Andrew Plotkin
Platform(s)	Z-machine[1]
Release	1995[1]
Genre(s)	Interactive fiction

Developed by Andrew Plotkin, the game^[2] is written in version five of the Inform programming language,^[3] and compiled for the Z-machine,^[1] a virtual machine that allows interactive fiction to be played on a variety of platforms.^[4] On June 24, 2014, Plotkin shared A Change in the Weather's source code for "personal, educational use only."^[3]

The game tied for first place in the Inform category of the 1995 Interactive Fiction Competition.^[5]

As one of six IF games recommended by CU Amiga in 1998, Jason Compton called A Change in the Weather "Very, very hard, it challenges IF conventions and makes you think (and save your game) quite a lot."^[2] Interactive fiction scholar Nick Montfort called it "remarkable ... for its attempts to integrate the typical sorts of adventure-game puzzles with the description of landscape, the simulation of an animal character, and the emotional situation of the 'adventurer' player character".^[6]

A Change in the Weather is included in the game collection that comes with the popular IF interpreter Frotz for the iPhone.^[7]