Text Adventure by Selliato

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made by Selliato for LD26 (COMPO)
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.

Ratings

Coolness 59% 3
Overall 2.94 800
Fun 2.64 874
Graphics 2.79 742
Humor 2.93 199
Innovation 2.24 1120
Mood 2.89 548
Theme 3.64 446

Feedback

Branch
28. Apr 2013 路 22:53 UTC
MS-DOS PORT PLEASE? I really would like to play this on my ms-dos 6.40.
馃帳 Selliato
29. Apr 2013 路 07:58 UTC
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
29. Apr 2013 路 09:51 UTC
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
29. Apr 2013 路 09:52 UTC
Not bad. I a little clunky, and the lack of being able to use Backspace was an annoyance.
s0ulcrusher
29. Apr 2013 路 09:58 UTC
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?
馃帳 Selliato
29. Apr 2013 路 10:22 UTC
@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
29. Apr 2013 路 18:51 UTC
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
29. Apr 2013 路 18:56 UTC
I tried to take the heart potato, but then I got booted all the way back to the start for some reason - nuts!
Masadow
29. Apr 2013 路 18:57 UTC
Loved Nabilla reference :D
Spanfile
29. Apr 2013 路 18:57 UTC
Really needs more things to do.
berkano
29. Apr 2013 路 18:59 UTC
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
29. Apr 2013 路 19:09 UTC
I like the colors very much! Very relaxing for old school programmers... ;)
ddionisio
29. Apr 2013 路 21:50 UTC
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
30. Apr 2013 路 10:14 UTC
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).
馃帳 Selliato
30. Apr 2013 路 10:25 UTC
@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
Yacodo
30. Apr 2013 路 13:13 UTC
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
01. May 2013 路 11:03 UTC
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 ?)
馃帳 Selliato
01. May 2013 路 11:26 UTC
Strange for the heart-potato ... I am unable to reproduce the bug.

Thank's for your feedback.
Jod
01. May 2013 路 13:32 UTC
Cool interface. Didn't quite manage to go up the stairs, though.
michail
01. May 2013 路 14:20 UTC
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.
CrazyGage
03. May 2013 路 06:09 UTC
interesting game. I am a big fan of text adventure. I had trouble doing much though as text parser needed more synonyms.
N427
03. May 2013 路 18:54 UTC
Pretty fun and original! What can I do with the heart-potato?
mrexcessive
06. May 2013 路 17:13 UTC
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
14. May 2013 路 03:12 UTC
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 :)