well of course i already have a gblorb player installed

i'm surprised the illustrations didn't work in quixe!  i've definitely released a quixe game with illustrations before.  but i might've had to do something zany to make it work, i don't remember now

this is cool and otherworldly.  nice music too.  putting npcs in inform is always hard (probably why zork just takes place in a big cave system) so kudos for doing it anyway

i absolutely fell for the coin thing oops.  my text adventure instinct is to take everything that isn't nailed down, and make a good effort at taking everything that is

i think the total score is buggy somehow?  it increased by 1 every time i looked around the room.  the end said i got 42/42 though which i assume is correct

thanks for giving it a go!!  now i want to make another text adventure yahoo

Oh dang! I wasn't aware that Inform had actual support for graphics and sound these days. That's cool. It actually adds a lot to the experience here, with the dreamlike quality of the setting and all. I also got tripped up by the dialogue system and by the coin thing, though I was able to figure out what to do about the coin.

This was a fun little experience, it's been some time since I've played an old-school interactive fiction title like this.

I do not have the attention span for this style of text adventure anymore but I love the presentation and the fact that there’s a modern Inform dialect that supports graphics and music. I remember back in the day when The Lurking Horror had some (very limited) sound and there were graphical elements in Beyond Zork and Zork Zero, but I’ve not kept up with the modern era of IF.

Anyway the music’s pretty good, if repetitive, and the art has a cool vibe to it. If only I were in a better headspace to actually explore this little world you’ve carved out.

I'm glad I took the extra step of downloading and playing the game in Gargoyle, because the art and the music added so much to the already surreal and dreamlike vibe of the game's narrative. Lovely and evocative writing, I'm very glad to have played this!

i appreciate a real proper Text Adventure game, and your writing and art are very pleasant. yaY!

This is a sweet little experience! Glad I sprung for the Gargoyle version - playing that really is the superior way to go through this. Yarrow really is fun entity to talk to, and the lore was really delightful. The colours of the game itself are also delightful; the magentas and purples give a real fitting dreamscape vibe to the entire situation. Solid writing, too!

I did want for a few more visuals - it would of been cool to see both the second room and the outside. I tripped up a few times in the game itself too - I didn’t realise until reading the comments here that the reason I couldn’t leave the room was because I’d taken the coins, nor that I could end the game by going north outside (I didn’t click that the relief from being outside was in part because I could now fly!)

I also could not figure out the correct syntax the game wanted for WHERE THIS IS/WHAT TO DO/GREETINGS - I definitely spent a good few minutes mashing every possible combination I could think of, though since I’m not usually a text adventure person I might just be missing something obvious.

Good job overall!

I'm not used to text based games. I was very intrigued by the setting, but couldn't figure out what to do after opening the metal door and examining everything in there. Is there something else I should be doing? I don't want to give it a rating until I know I've finished it lol

I love this type of game.
I'm bad at them, but I love them. 
My mental image of the place shifted constantly with the new props that appeared. I felt like a little more initial context of the room and the "aestetics" to imagine would have done wonders with that.
And yet I kept playing until I found no path forward, but failing to find it was my lack of skills showing.
Good job

Agreeing with Lupanar - It's a shame there was no art in the game, it would have given everything a lot more context. It's a lot of scrolling when everything is multiple paragraphs, so it's very wordy, and I found myself struggling to comprehend it at times.

it's cool to see someone else made a text-based game for a jam. I thought i was alone in liking that kind of game.
Is it me, or the images in the preview panel are absent in the game? All I got was a plain black text on white background. Which is a shame, because I kinda like your artstyle, and it would have made it easier to understand where the character is. I went west after examining a bunch of stuff and I got stuck in the room with the piles of coins, unable to progress further.