What’s this? Is Turbo posting in the wrong section?
No, friends, I have been working on a small project to teach myself text-adventure development.
You’ll need a game engine that supports Inform 7 to play this. Like: Windows Glulxe and Windows Git
This of course leads to a few questions, the most obvious is “Does this mean you might be working on a larger text-adventure project?”
Maybe. We’ll see.
Text adventures usually aren’t standalone programs, but rather a collection of files that need a game engine as well to actually run them. It’s analogous to how a game like Doom is split into two parts, the engine bit, which can be replaced with alternatives like PrBoom or GZDoom, and the map and data files, which work in any of the engines. (Usually).
I’m using a development system called Inform 7 to produce this test piece, so you’ll need a text adventure engine that you use to execute the .gblorb file in the zip provided in the download.
Common engines are Frotz, for windows, Gargoyle for Linux, and Spatterlight for OS X
Try this.
Wew lad.
I can see why there was little to no reaction to it.
I spend nearly 40 minutes just trying to get the game running
I couldn’t find Frotz so in the end i had look for a glob player and settled on Lectrode.
I’m not bother by this.
Ill happily tear my pc apart if i need too but for many others this might be a bit too much effort.
Might I suggest you provide links to glorb players ?
Yeh probably should.
So I i played around with it for about 20 minutes.
Do i just look around or can i do anything or will something happen ?
I got stuck in the gap for one.
You have a decent amount of actions that you can do, part of the puzzle is figuring out what your options are. Try exploring upstairs or the shed in the backyard.
I’m currently upstairs.
…probably gonna hang myself with the scarf.
Didnt do much in the shed other then look at the lawnmower.
the footstool in the shed is a big component cuz you can push it around.
Also you can open the lawnmower. It has a flap on the side after all.
I opened the flap.
ill look at the stool in a moment.
( must admit I’m utter crap at puzzles)
If you can get under the lawnmower there should be an obvious death. The footstool on the ground floor and the ottoman in the guest room upstairs can be pushed to an adjacent room.
Hmm, the step stool is fixed in place,
Might that be my player ?
What happens when you try ‘push stepstool north’ ?
I go back in to the backyard, if i use that command.
Might be my player.
Edit : Alright I died with help of the lawnmower.
Ending 12 of 14 huh ?
I got bored and went a bit extra with endings.
Now what to do with the ottoman and the scarf.
I tried to climb the ottoman in the bathroom but it wont let me.
Not sure if i am using all these commands right I feel i’m missing a few.
‘get on ottoman’ seems to be the verb and noun pair inform likes.
