You open the door and step into the room, closing the door behind you. The air smells fresher in here and the room is well kept.
A man in his 40s sits behind a desk. You guess this must be Luke. You quickly scan the desk for his weapon, but see nothing. No doubt he's packing something somewhere.
You suddenly wish you'd given your plans more thought. No need to fake your fear now.
"Oi! I haven't got all day. What are you after?"
"Uum... some Yellows."
The man opens a draw, reaches inside and pulls out a handgun. He places it on the table then reaches back into the draw and produces a large quanity of yellow pills in a clear plastic bag.
As he struggles with the knot fastening the bag, you eye his gun and wonder if you could reach it before him. The saftey catch is off and you prey it's loaded.
> x handgun
It's a Meson 9mm.
> use meson
I can't see that.
> use handgun
You can't use it.
> take handgun
You can't take it.
> grab handgun
"What the hell are you doing?"
> shoot luke
"What the hell are you doing?"
> look
You open the door and step into the room, closing the door behind you. The air smells fresher in here and the room is well kept.
A man in his 40s sits behind a desk. You guess this must be Luke. You quickly scan the desk for his weapon, but see nothing. No doubt he's packing something somewhere.
You suddenly wish you'd given your plans more thought. No need to fake your fear now.
"Oi! I haven't got all day. What are you after?"
"Uum... some Yellows."
The man opens a draw, reaches inside and pulls out a handgun. He places it on the table then reaches back into the draw and produces a large quanity of yellow pills in a clear plastic bag.
As he struggles with the knot fastening the bag, you eye his gun and wonder if you could reach it before him. The saftey catch is off and you prey it's loaded.
> pistol whip luke
"What the hell are you doing?"
> look at luke
I can't see that.
> take pills
I can't see that.
> take yellows
I can't see that.
> grab yellows
"What the hell are you doing?"
The Pixie wrote:I get asked for a magic word, but have no idea what it is or where to find it.
Silver wrote:Well as I had a gun already I typed point gun at Luke (this was mainly because I remembered the thread discussing it...)
the game printed "what the hell are you doing?" (presumably luke was saying this) and as I didn't know what the hell I was doing I didn't know how to respond. So I tried take pills which the game couldn't see then I tried both 'pull trigger' and 'fire gun' which the game didn't recognise either. These are the things people will try. It's quite ambiguous as to what should come next and the obvious stuff drew a blank.
Silver wrote:Apart from that, I enjoyed the writing!
Silver wrote:Because parser IF is open ended and there's lots of things I could do. You'd be surprised what you as the author think is obvious and what people playing it conclude. Six seconds might sound all the time in the world to you but it isn't to someone playing it for the first time. If you insist on using that mechanic then I'd be more explicit about it. Like make the timer ten seconds (don't punish people for not being quick enough) and have the goon say "Right, you've got ten seconds to hand me that gun" then start a five second timer which prints the goon saying "Five seconds..." which gives the player the knowledge that something probably bad will probably happen after that passage of time. As it is now, they know a pissed off goon has entered the room but they don't know they have a very short time before something happens. Throw throw them a bone.
I'll have another try specifically to test the timer and the existence of this other gun.