Savoir-Faire is a piece of
interactive fiction written by
Emily Short, about a magician in 18th-century France searching his aristocratic adoptive father's house. It won the
Best Game,
Best Story,
Best Individual Player Character and
Best Puzzles awards at the 2002
Xyzzy Awards, and was a finalist for four other categories. The game was generally praised for its unique use of magical powers (based on weaving links between similar objects, so that anything that happens to one happens to both) and its high-quality implementation. A mini-game follow-up,
Damnatio Memoriae, was released in 2006.
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