A Typical Friday Night by merthsoft

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made by merthsoft for LD22 (COMPO)
This is my first time entering Ludum Dare, so I decided to make an IF game. Growing up I always loved IF, and I figured this would be a good chance to get making one under my belt. You play similar to other IF games (think Zork). Use directions to move around (such as "east" or "e"), and use verbs to interact with with the environment, such as "sleep" and "take". It's a pretty short game, but see if you can find all the IF easter eggs :). There's also some hidden cats! I hope you enjoy!

Ratings

Coolness 28% 457
Overall 2.91 251
Audio 1.00 594
Community 2.50 326
Fun 2.36 340
Graphics 1.29 694
Humor 2.56 130
Innovation 2.10 467
Mood 2.80 198
Theme 3.82 29

Feedback

馃帳 merthsoft
18. Dec 2011 路 22:16 UTC
I can't find a way to edit this, so I'll just post this as a comment:
Source is with the download, and it should work find under Linux and Mac with Mono (it's C# targeting .NET 2.0), but all I've tested under is Windows.
cakemonitor
19. Dec 2011 路 11:54 UTC
Short and to the point. It could use a command to list all the verbs which the parser knows (To save trying "pull" then "use" then "move" and so on...). Nice work though, and congratulations on submitting your first Ludum Dare entry!
Lythom
19. Dec 2011 路 19:21 UTC
I Like the idea of an IF game, the theme is well used. However I had hard time to start (what commands are available ?) because I'm not used with this kind of game.
Congrats for your first ame in LD =)
iansnyder
20. Dec 2011 路 18:20 UTC
Congrats on your first Ludum Dare :) Unfortunately after spending a while trying to figure out if I could use the cell phone I ended up quitting... even being somewhat familiar with IF I just wasn't sure what to do :(
Stargoat
21. Dec 2011 路 11:37 UTC
Depressing :(. Certainly fits the theme, haha.

Couldn't find any easter eggs or cats, might have another look later.
kumber
23. Dec 2011 路 20:04 UTC
I didn't found the easter eggs. When the game told me to try harder, I looked at the source :)
Very nice overall. Good work!
馃帳 merthsoft
24. Dec 2011 路 20:21 UTC
Thanks for the comments, everyone! After watching a few of my friends play, it is evident that I need better instructions on what to do. But I'm glad people seem to like it well enough despite that :)
KhaoTom
25. Dec 2011 路 11:29 UTC
"Intelligent language processing? Nope. Chuck Testa." lol :)
summaky
25. Dec 2011 路 11:42 UTC
Woo! Maximum score: 0 of 0! It was well done and the theme fits perfectly. Also, it looks a lot like *my* Friday nights...
seagaia
01. Jan 2012 路 20:25 UTC
Short of course, maybe could have used items at some point? Although the sleep alone ending was cute.
馃帳 merthsoft
03. Jan 2012 路 14:32 UTC
The bottle of jack is a usable item. It's in the fridge.
wally2069
03. Jan 2012 路 17:31 UTC
Nice little game that is so simple it might suffer with more add-ons.