I've finally re-added the hints - you can see them by typing HINTS. Enjoy!
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So far I've rebuilt Hamlet and Zeppelin Adventure as well as this one, and I'll do the others as soon as I can, probably over the next day or three. I've temporarily removed the deprecated exe's and I'll post devlogs when I upload the new ones, so you should be able to keep track.
Thanks for your help!
I know it's your rules and all, but I'd like to say I would definitely be up for this jam (and even have an Infocom-related game in progress currently bound for IFComp that I'd probably submit here instead) - if it weren't for the requirement for games to be in I6 or ZIL. You could limit it to parser games and everything would still be in the Infocom spirit. I think the ZIL revival is a great thing but I just haven't got the time or spoons to learn a new language. I suspect there are a lot of authors in I7 and possibly Dialogue (which compiles to Z-code) as well.
But again, your jam, your rules. I hope it goes well.
Sorry about that - looks like I need to find a better way of making executables. You could try this: http://versificator.net/portcullis/portcullis.zip - unzip it to a fresh folder and open index.html . Unfortunately Windows 10 security is blocking that for me as well, but your mileage may vary. I'm as certain as I can be that it's clean, unless something's gone very wrong at my hosting provider.
Thank you so much for your support. I'll look for a better way of making offline playables.
oh man I just made a game called Zookoban too! http://versificator.itch.io/zookoban (Don't worry, it's different enough!)
Y8 dot com /games/zookoban is my itchio game Zookoban harvested and monetised on their ad-funded site. As far as I can tell they're just iframing it from itch's servers, they're not hosting a copy. I've asked them to take it down but I understand itch has defenses against hotlinking, so you might want to know they're not working in this case. Thanks.
Hello all! I've joined up to finish a game called Zookoban that's been sitting three-quarters-or-so finished on my hard drive for many months.
It's an animal-themed 2d puzzler. On each level you control a bunch of animals trying to escape a zoo, and each type of animal has different skills - monkeys can climb trees, beavers can build dams across water, giraffes can stretch their necks across obstacles to make a bridge for smaller animals, etc.
The mechanics are finished, but I need to make a bunch more levels and tweak the interface.
Here's a trailer I made last year:
Hello all, I'm Robin and I make text adventures. I've just created a page here for the analytics and pay-what-you-want capability: http://versificator.itch.io.
My very first game was Hamlet - The Text Adventure, which I've just given its first update in about 15 years.
Some of the games (including Hamlet) are classic style type-in adventures; others use a more mobile-friendly clickable interface that mimics the feel of those games without the need for typing.
Share and Enjoy!