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Key & Compass presents:
Interactive Fiction Player
by Charlie Marcou

Interactive Fiction Player is a Z-machine interactive fiction game written with Inform 7 and is © 2013 by Charlie Marcou.

In this short joke of a game, you play as an interactive fiction player who gets out of bed and goes to their office to play a game. In this short joke of a game, you play as an interactive fiction player who gets out of bed and goes to their office to play a game. In this short joke of a game,...

This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 1 of the game.

SPOILERS AHEAD. Reading a walkthrough prematurely can sometimes diminish one's enjoyment of an interactive fiction game. Please make an honest effort to play the game before reading this walkthrough.


Map

office Bedroom Hallway Kitchen Balcony (die) (LOSE) x computer turn off computer d/jump

Walkthrough

Bedroom

> stand. x bed. x dresser. x door.

> open dresser. take key. x it.

> e. unlock door. e. n.

office

> x computer.

You start playing an IF game identical in all respects to this one. This effectively means that everything is reset except for the turn count.

Bedroom

> open dresser. take key. unlock door.

> e. s.

kitchen

> s. (Another locked door.)

> unlock door. s.

Balcony

> dorjump.

you fell to your death

And then the next keypress ends the game session.

Restarting the game...

Bedroom

> open dresser. take key. unlock door.

> e. n.

office

> turn off computer.

Fine. You turned off the computer and you LOSE

And then the next keypress ends the game session.

And as near as I can tell, that's all there is to this game. Sorry. This game is like running in a hamster wheel that goes nowhere.


Extras

Endings

There's two ways to lose, and no way to win:


Inventory


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