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Hideout text adventure: cheaters' thread!
Posted: January 22nd, 2012, 10:39 pm
by Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell
Anyone really want to play Peter Rogers' Hideout text adventure but really suck at text adventures? let's pool our resources here and figure this out! i'm tired of getting eaten by grues and having Kareem not talk to me...sniff...
Posted: January 22nd, 2012, 11:11 pm
by Jolene
Oh please tell me what this is
Posted: January 22nd, 2012, 11:34 pm
by hujhax
The game!
P.S. The origin of the game!
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peter rogers @ home | http://hujhax.livejournal.com
"Rated PG-13: Millions of people die, but nobody swears, copulates, undresses or takes drugs."
-- From A. O. Scott's review of The Day After Tomorrow
Some things I've figured out
Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 12:56 am
by Ryan Hill
Ask brad about a lot of things.
Try:
"Ask Brad about..."
"...skull."
"...Kaci."
"...Roy."
"...Kareem."
You must have the ticket to enter the audience seating area.
Also...
Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 1:03 am
by Ryan Hill
Be sure to LOOK at everyone and everything.
Try EXAMINING objects and people.
Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 1:05 am
by hujhax
Text Adventure Protip: you can abbreviate "EXAMINE" to "X".
> X BRAD
> X MYSELF
... and so on.
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peter rogers @ home | http://hujhax.livejournal.com
A movie title should let you see a free movie in your head when you hear the title.
-- Patton Oswalt
Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 1:17 am
by Spots
While on the subject, is there a USE command?
Re: Hideout text adventure: cheaters' thread!
Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 1:23 am
by Spots
Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell wrote:i'm tired of getting eaten by grues and having Kareem not talk to me...sniff...
That's too bad man. Too bad.
Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 2:06 am
by hujhax
Spots wrote:While on the subject, is there a USE command?
I haven't added one -- but I could. Keep letting me know about commands that seem missing/broken, and I can have a go at adding/fixing'em.
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peter rogers @ netbook | http://hujhax.livejournal.com
What concerns me is that snark functions as a device to punish human spontaneity, eccentricity, non-conformity and simple error. Everyone is being snarked into line.
-- Roger Ebert
Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 6:59 am
by Spots
hujhax wrote:
I haven't added one -- but I could.
Oh. I just assumed that puzzles involved the player's inventory. I grew up on games like Hugo's House of Horrors and Monkey Island.
Code: Select all
USE plunger with keypad
"You can't plunge that."
Code: Select all
USE cheese with cage
"You now have a baited cage."
Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 7:28 am
by Spaztique
Say, strange question, but what happens if I get stuck within the game itself? As in I accidentally typed the wrong things, and I kind of get sucked into my LCD monitor and am suddenly trapped in the text adventure itself?
Because I think I might have done that...
Also, what do I do after getting upstairs?
Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 9:41 am
by Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell
be sure to ask Kareem about Tom Waits!
Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 9:55 am
by Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell
okay, i'm completely stuck. anyone know how to find the keys to the office or electrical box or the code to the tech booth? i'm just walking in circles now. :p
Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 10:27 am
by Spots
Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell wrote:okay, i'm completely stuck. anyone know how to find the keys to the office or electrical box or the code to the tech booth? i'm just walking in circles now. :p
Those are 3 of the 4 things I'm on the look out for. Oh also anything with alcohol in it. But all I can get Carl to acknowledge is coffee.
YOUR MOVE CARL.
Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 12:53 pm
by Amira
I love that this thread exists.