Game Jam Assistant by Frank Gevaerts

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made by Frank Gevaerts for Ludum Dare 53 (JAM)

Game Jam Assistant is a text adventure written in Inform 7.

It’s playable on the web.

There is no graphics or audio in this game, so I opted out of those categories. I followed the Compo rules, but I had no time at all on Sunday to work on it so I'm submitting in Jam.

If you have never played a game like this before, you basically type what you want to do and the game responds. What you need for this particular game: - Looking at things, e.g. “look at rope” or “examine rope” or "read rope" (ok, that one doesn't make sense for ropes. But it does make sense for written things!), or the usual short form “x rope”. - Look at everything, including yourself! “look at self” or “look at me”. - Picking things up. “take rope” or “get rope”. - Talking to someone. "talk to merchant" or "say hello to merchant" (in this game, you don't have to say anything specific, so just "talk to merchant" is all you need) - Moving around. "go north", "go west", "go south", "go east", or their short forms "n", "w", "s", "e" - Giving something to someone. "Give rope to merchant"

Many other verbs work too. (there are no ropes or merchants in this game)

Look at everything, including yourself!

NPCs in this game are named after other LD participants. Thanks to them for letting me use their name!

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Tudvari
02. May 2023 · 14:56 UTC
"Is this time machine broken?"

I have to confess, that this is the first time I'm playing a game like this. But I really enjoyed it, especially the insider jokes, and managed to (I think) give all the papers to their corresponding authors. But there wasn't really an end screen, or is there? Maybe I missed something. I think I haven't interacted with Future Phil or Alpha wolf on a sensible way, so maybe I missed them.

By the way, I think I broke some jammers: after I gave them wrong papers at first, I could hear them considering ideas all around the map. :laughing:

Anyway, really enjoyed it so far, thanks for including me, Frank! Cheers! :)
🎤 Frank Gevaerts
02. May 2023 · 17:53 UTC
Thanks for playing, @tudvari! Right, I forgot a condition around the "evaluating" message...
!>Alpha Wolf and Future Phil are really only there as decoration, especially Future Phil who doesn't really do anything at all. Alpha Wolf still walks around a bit (and will eat mushrooms and leaves if you give them to him
Tudvari
02. May 2023 · 18:43 UTC
@frank-gevaerts Okay, I'll boot it up again just to do that! :D
BalimaarTheBassFish
02. May 2023 · 20:39 UTC
Great fun as always fgeva!
🎤 Frank Gevaerts
02. May 2023 · 20:40 UTC
Thanks for playing, @balimaarthebassfish!
BangKerpow
05. May 2023 · 00:52 UTC
This is my firs time playing this kind of game and I really enjoyed it. I think I soft locked giving the wrong idea to different people and I couldn't figure out how to get it back. Thanks for including me :)

I type to the viewer on this playthrough a couple times.
https://youtu.be/tRWxGenb1lg
commanderstitch
07. May 2023 · 01:43 UTC
got a 9 out of 9 took me 209 tries or turns. I really enjoyed this one. I loved figuring out who needed what and chasing people down. The only thing i struggled with was remembering what people wanted to make their game ideas into. I couldn't think of what to ask them. :D Got it though! fun fun fun! :D
Jiri Hysek
09. May 2023 · 16:06 UTC
Finally! ![Snímek obrazovky 2023-05-09 v 18.04.43.png](///raw/221/c/z/5ba3c.png)

That would be the first text adventure I ever finished :D But it was fun, full of easter eggs that only Pixel Prophecy community know. I ended up with drawing a map in google spreadsheets to keep track of where I am, but it's part of fun, I guess :)
Yngvarr
12. May 2023 · 22:04 UTC
This piece is a classic text adventure by you and, I must say, your games are always so much fun! I enjoyed every bit of it (especially the interaction with Alpha Wolf). Thanks for including me in your game (funny, I was the last person I helped :) ).

I didn't find a way to extract logs from the game, so here's my playthrough instead. =)
https://youtu.be/JpoQ8-_GB3o