rendition is a 2007 work of interactive fiction

Interactive fiction

Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, describes software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Works in this form can be understood as literary narratives and as video games. In common usage, the term refers to text...

 by "nespresso", written using Inform 7 and published in z-code format, in which the player performs an interrogation of a suspected terrorist. The game describes itself as a "political art experiment in text adventure form". It was submitted to the 2007 Interactive Fiction Art Show in the "Portrait

Portrait

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" category.

The game divided opinion, with judging panel member Jon Ingold

Jon Ingold

Jon Ingold is most known as the author of interactive fiction works, but he has also written a number of plays, short stories and novels. He has been nominated for many XYZZY Awards and has won several.-Life and education:...

 reflecting that "I think this is all very powerful. Even the score-line is threatening... As a demonstration of the power - the impact - that a "silly little text-game" can have, it works very well." and Adam Thornton stating "It had succeeded superbly in its aim", whereas Marnie Parker pronounced that "where it is really interactive is on the emotional level - it is rather repugnant" and Jacqueline Lott claimed "I did not enjoy this entry, nor, I hope, was I meant to enjoy it.".

The game was subsequently chosen as game-of-the-day by playthisthing, where it was described by Emily Short

Emily Short

Emily Short is the pseudonym of an interactive fiction writer, perhaps best known for her debut game Galatea and her use of psychologically complex NPCs, or non-player game characters...

 thus:

It presents in a single atomic example the emotive power of complicity in gaming and interactive story-telling. When the player reaches the point of questioning his own involvement in a story, that story takes on a new significance, one which is not possible in non-interactive media.

She subsequently used the game, along with Photopia

Photopia

Photopia is a piece of literature by Adam Cadre rendered in the form of interactive fiction, and written in Inform. It is regarded as a pioneer in narrative-driven, rather than puzzle- or challenge-driven, interactive fiction...

, as an example of an "approach to tragedy in interactive fiction" at the Association for Computing Machinery

Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...

's Hypertext 2007 conference. It was further discussed in a lecture at Cambridge University by Jorge Nathan Matias on 5 November 2007.