Die a Hero or Become the Villain

by mrwonko
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.90
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.80
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.50
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.55
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.25
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.59
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★10%
I used Ludum Dare 25 as an opportunity to learn Inform 7, a language for writing Text Adventures. I succeeded at that, if not at actually writing a winnable game in it. But look at it this way: When does the villain ever win? So it's just fine.

The most important commands are (some of these may qualify as spoilers?) look, go x (or just s/n/e/w), enter x, think, take x, inventory (or just i), switch x, live, attack x, burn x.

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Comments13

vociferocity
vociferocity17 Dec 2012, 05:33
very fun! I love IF, and it's awesome to see that someone attempted one for LD :) it's a shame you couldn't get it finished, but what's here is very entertaining
Jonathan Whiting
Jonathan Whiting17 Dec 2012, 10:38
Couldn't find the way to actually become the villain.
RandomM0017 Dec 2012, 10:44
You got five stars for graphics! :D
Good to see a text adventure for once!
ntbm17 Dec 2012, 11:31
I hope you'll find the time to complete it, because i wanna dominate the world!
mutuware17 Dec 2012, 14:34
Great dastardly music!
mutuware17 Dec 2012, 14:35
Woops, wrong tab. Sigh...
Nutter17 Dec 2012, 17:33
I have no idea how to do anything in this, as there isn't a list of what verbs it recognises.
emveyh
emveyh17 Dec 2012, 17:43
Yay for text adventure :D it would be great if you could give us a list of the commands that can be used. i tried to walk / go in all directions but it's allways saying that i can't go there :(
garygreen
garygreen17 Dec 2012, 21:48
I enjoyed it, but did get stuck... but that's what always happened with me and text adventures! :-/
oldtopman17 Dec 2012, 21:52
I love your text adventure game! While incomplete, it had me laughing.

For those of you who can't get past the starting point, try "live" or "die".
Cat Burton17 Dec 2012, 23:29
'eat cat'

Amazing writing and very funny responses to some commands I tried! Thank you for making me laugh lots! :D
Mr. Wonkoauthor18 Dec 2012, 01:23
Thanks for the nice comments. I've added the most important commands to the description. I'll consider finishing this once I've got some time, maybe at the end of the week.

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