Topic “Zork”
Dastardly - an Interactive Fiction Adventure
1 Feb, 2005
2006-01-22 UPDATE – I’m pleased to announce that this game’s critical bug has been fixed, and Release 2/serial 20060122 is now available. I will be sending the updated file to the IF Archive momentarily. Apologies to anyone who has taken the time to play through this game only to get stymied by the bug.
About
Dastardly is a short, Victorian-era text adventure written in the Inform programming language.
It is my first completed attempt at writing an interactive fiction adventure, and it was written as an entry to the Third 24 Hours of Inform Contest.
As you play, keep in mind that the requirements of the contest were as follows:
- Not more than 24 (non-consecutive) hours be spent in the development of the game
- The theme, provided by Holly Gramazio, was that “The adventure must be set in a theatre. It must involve a petticoat, an advertisement, something which is repainted, and a trapdoor.”
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How to Play
In order to run Dastardly you need a Z-Machine Interpreter, an extensive selection of which can be found at http://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXinfocomXinterpreters.html .
FireFox users can install the Gnusto plugin and play by simply clicking the Download link above.
If you are new to interactive fiction, start with A Beginner’s Guide to Playing Interactive Fiction.
License
Dastardly is © 2005 by Andy Chase.
Dastardly is distributed under the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0” license, which basically means that you are free:
- to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
Under the following conditions:
- Attribution. You must give the original author credit.
- Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
- No Derivative Works. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
- For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.
- Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.
Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above.
This is a human-readable summary of the Legal Code (see the full license for details).
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