Text Adventure

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.94
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.64
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.24
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.64
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.79
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.93
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.89
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★59%
Final Release for the Ludum Dare 26.
A small text-only adventure game.
It's more a test for practicing than a real game.

Update 04/29 : Some Typos fixes. Enjoy a correct English.

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Comments24

Branch28 Apr 2013, 22:58
MS-DOS PORT PLEASE? I really would like to play this on my ms-dos 6.40.
Selliatoauthor29 Apr 2013, 08:03
Sorry, MS-DOS is a new technology that I have not yet mastered. Maybe in the future, when more people using it. Sorry for you, being a pioneer is never easy.
Morgawr
Morgawr29 Apr 2013, 09:56
A lot of grammar errors, something that isn't really excusable on a text game... I was a bit annoyed that I couldn't backspace my way on the text, which piled up all over the place because of my typing retardation.
A very good idea and concept which became annoying fast (unfortunately).
64Mega
64Mega29 Apr 2013, 09:57
Not bad. I a little clunky, and the lack of being able to use Backspace was an annoyance.
s0ulcrusher29 Apr 2013, 10:03
Wish this had backspace input working, my dyslexia/crap spelling made it hard not to fatfinger commands. I picked everything up and LOOK'ed every room, am I missing something?
Selliatoauthor29 Apr 2013, 10:27
@Morgawr :
Sorry, I'm French and my English grammar is catastrophic. I'll try to fix it this week.

@others :
For the backspace, I am aware of the problem but I haven't managed to find a solution before the deadline. Alternatively you can use "delete".
FenrisWolf
FenrisWolf29 Apr 2013, 18:56
I liked the inventory and items side bars. I wish there were common text adventure features (typing N instead of GO NORTH) and also the ability to backspace. The game would be immensely improved if the whole game wasn't in caps lock. Good idea though.
GertJohnny
GertJohnny29 Apr 2013, 19:01
I tried to take the heart potato, but then I got booted all the way back to the start for some reason - nuts!
Spanfile29 Apr 2013, 19:02
Really needs more things to do.
Masadow29 Apr 2013, 19:02
Loved Nabilla reference :D
berkano
berkano29 Apr 2013, 19:04
Nice job, it took me back to a simpler time and place. Would be nice to type things such as "W" instead of "GO WEST". Contained appropriate levels of potato.
phi
phi29 Apr 2013, 19:14
I like the colors very much! Very relaxing for old school programmers... ;)
ddionisio
ddionisio29 Apr 2013, 21:55
Nice game! I enjoy text adventures from time to time. The interaction is a little unconventional. Things like USE DOOR should work, LOOK should also always list where you can go, this was missing in some locations. I tried 'eat potato', didn't work :(
Colapsydo
Colapsydo30 Apr 2013, 10:19
The layout and the visual aspect are great.
I didn't find a main goal in my quest, and I tried a lot of actions (I wasn't able to cook a potato with the mower).
Selliatoauthor30 Apr 2013, 10:30
@Colapsydo :
Cooking a potato with the mower ?
Good job if you perform this exploit.

( in french mower = tondeuse )

And sorry i didn't had time to add some goals so ... you can consider this game like a comtemplatif game in text mode :P
Yacodo30 Apr 2013, 13:18
Console game, didn't see one since a looong time ! How can we do more minimalist than that ? Improvement on text input (history, delete and maybe auto-completion) and a panel go different available direction would be great
nSun
nSun1 May 2013, 11:08
Same surprise as GertJohnny : Use heart-potato in the kitchen : something happens too fast for reading : back to the beginning.
This game seems minimalist, but I know it mean lot of work : write and describe everything.. Finaly maybe very time consuming project ?
Nice compo, well executed :)
YOU WELL COME WITH YOU GRAMMAR GUY ! X) (Why we dont use esperanto on next LD ?)
Selliatoauthor1 May 2013, 11:31
Strange for the heart-potato ... I am unable to reproduce the bug.

Thank's for your feedback.
Jod1 May 2013, 13:37
Cool interface. Didn't quite manage to go up the stairs, though.
michail
michail1 May 2013, 14:25
Whenever I pressed 'tab' in Firefox it resets for some reason.
(Yeah, I couldn't resist using tab for autocompletion :p). Anyway, the concept is fine, but it could be more user friendly.
CrazyGage3 May 2013, 06:14
interesting game. I am a big fan of text adventure. I had trouble doing much though as text parser needed more synonyms.
N4273 May 2013, 18:59
Pretty fun and original! What can I do with the heart-potato?
mrexcessive6 May 2013, 17:18
Seems competent text adventure... picked up some things including heart-potato, nothing seemed to stick out as a puzzle... maybe I didn't look enough. I would give the detailed "look" description for rooms on entry, only use simple description on reentry... seemed had to type look in every room...
ahm99
ahm9914 May 2013, 03:17
Pretty small world :) I actually had a lot of fun typing certain things.

Fun things to try:
USE INVISIBLE_OBJECT or USE CHUCK_NORRIS
type: IF YOU'RE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT UNKNOWN COMMAND
I also used google translate on the french text on the magazine :)

Pretty cool game, good job :)
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