Walking The Pig by Frank Gevaerts
Walking The Pig 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.
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 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”.
- Dropping things. “drop rope”.
- Moving around. “go north”, “go west”, “go south”, “go east”, or their short forms “n”, “w”, “s”, “e”
- Leashing animals. ”leash horse".
Many other verbs work too. (there are no ropes or horses in this game)
Look at everything, including yourself!
(There is a link to a transcript below if you can't figure it out. In that transcript only necessary steps are taken though, there is more to look at)
| Link | https://www.gevaerts.be/ld54/RC6/play.html |
| Link | https://www.gevaerts.be/ld54/RC6/source.html |
| gblorb file (for people who have a favourite interpreter) | https://www.gevaerts.be/ld54/RC6/Walking%20the%20Pig.gblorb |
| Transcript | https://www.gevaerts.be/ld54/transcript.txt |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/walking-the-pig |
Ratings
| Overall | 164th | 3.6⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 163th | 3.55⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 264th | 3.1⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 329th | 2.783⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 45th | 3.617⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 206th | 3.233⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 22🗳️ | 40🗨️ |
Cool little entry as usual, Frank! :) I don’t usually play games like this, my first time was with your last LD entry. I missed Alpha Wolf Phil and Future Phil, but I was glad that there were some references. :D Nevertheless it was an immersive experience, I should read more books! :D Keep it up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nUrc7WpCW8
@stmate03 silly was a design goal :) I had some ideas involving "Space Ltd" and then while I was trying to get to sleep I thought about taking a pig for a walk and that seemed a lot more fun!
@cat-lab I'm not sure there's a lot of replay value, but feel free to try! I've had a shoehorn in several of my LD games so at this point it's as much a reference as a gimmick to claim I followed the theme.
@tudvari I can't teleport Phil into my games every time! :)
@bangkerpow yes, there's some things in there that make me want to try some other style of game at some point. I don't really do these enough to know how to help new players and I keep forgetting what people struggle with... ||You got lucky there, the pig accidentally ran into the pigsty so you didn't have to catch it again!||
I had fun walking the pig. There were only two sad things: I could not hug the pig and I could not feed it apples. I also tried anything I could think of to go snooping around the farmhouse, but didn't manage :wink: The theme is shoehorned indeed, but otherwise - cool little text adventure, if not a very complicated one.
Maybe that could have been a bonus point (so you could finish with 8 out of 7).
All in all, as always, loved your LD entry!
I beat it. I'm always happy that I can finish and solve these puzzles. :) Thanks for making it.
@shmi yes, I should have had some more little things hidden in the game, that's always better!
@konfekt I tried hints in some previous games, and I should do so again. The problem is that they take time and focus to do well, and lately especially focus has been a bit of a problem for me during LD. I need to work on that!
@commanderstitch bah, I didn't even think of trying to eat the apple yourself! Making that do something sensible would have been a three minute job... Sometimes I hate open worlds!
I'm not good at text adventures, but still enjoyed this. Nicely done :thumbsup:
Anyway, another nice text adventure! The first half was made by you, the rest in my head. That's the beauty of text adventures.
!>so I adjusted it so the pig walking into the sty by itself also counts for winning. Originally being on the leash was necessary there, and you definitely need apples to calm it down enough to get it back on the leash. Given how many people now missed that puzzle entirely, I'm not sure I made the right call...
I was planning something closer, but when I went to sleep on Friday night after a few hours of exploring and trying to refine ideas, I had the thought "A game about walking a pig" and that just felt so much nicer than anything I had come up with!
Nice idea, funny and well thought!
I like the entry overall. GG.