A zork-inspired text adventure set in a creepy mansion for the season.
You awaken in your great uncle's mansion, unaware of how you got there. The front doors are locked. Can you find your way out of the mansion?
Interact with the game by typing commands like "go north" and "throw baby in lake". The parser is pretty liberal so just try things out. There is at least one way to win the game and one way to lose.
I only wound up implementing about two thirds of the rooms of the mansion and fewer than half the items and puzzles. I had a very busy weekend so I only had about 24 hours to work on this all told.
*NO GENERATIVE AI WAS USED FOR ANY PORTION OF THIS GAME*
The code was written by me with my fingers. I used a modified version of my own game library based on SDL2. The art, such as it is, was made from stock images modified with Aseprite.
There are downloadable versions on the itch page as well if you don't want to play the web version.
the parser just works, look and directions do exactly what i expect, which is not a given in jam text adventures. orange on black, the dithered skull on the title, nice spooky mood. only explored the first couple of rooms so far
I got stuck and had to look up the answer. Room descriptions don't update when rooms get new items in them, so I didn't realize that the "linens" I pushed through the chute were actually called "laundry" and thus couldn't find the handkerchief. The copper key also confused me since its description said it could be used to open bottles but it did nothing when used on the whiskey bottle. I think it's unlikely I would have figured out the final solution even if I'd made it past that point (I wasn't even aware that escaping the mansion was the goal).
I almost got stuck at the balcony, because I don't generally expect a "look" command to have side-effects, and instead tried several variations of "use hemp rope" to get off the balcony before eventually figuring it out.
Miscellany: - I'd like a way to check inventory - Dropping an item and forgetting where you dropped it means losing it since the room descriptions don't update - You can't drop the crowbar in the same room you picked it up (a bug, I think)
@henk Thanks for playing and for your feedback. Those are indeed all "bugs" in the sense that they are things I know about and would have fixed had I not run out of time. The goal was not supposed to be to escape the mansion until I had 10 minutes left to make a win condition :)
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I almost got stuck at the balcony, because I don't generally expect a "look" command to have side-effects, and instead tried several variations of "use hemp rope" to get off the balcony before eventually figuring it out.
Miscellany:
- I'd like a way to check inventory
- Dropping an item and forgetting where you dropped it means losing it since the room descriptions don't update
- You can't drop the crowbar in the same room you picked it up (a bug, I think)