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Contains Ghosterington​_Night.gblorb
Release 3 of Ghosterington Night.
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Inform 7 (6L38) Source Code and multimedia
Contains ghosterington​_night​_source.txt
Contains Inform 7 source code for release 3 of Ghosterington Night plus audio and title graphic. (Source requires Inform 6L02 or newer to compile.) The source is well commented with the goal of being helpful to Inform 7 programmers of Beginner experience and upwards.
(Compressed with ZIP. Free Unzip tools are available for most systems at www.info-zip.org.)
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The author attended a group play of Ghosterington Night (Release 2) on IFMud on January 9, 2012. This is a link to the transcript. WARNING: TOTAL SPOILERDOM!
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Ghosterington Night

by Wade Clarke profile

Horror, Humor
2012

(based on 13 ratings)
2 reviews

About the Story

Danger-filled Ghosterington Manor appears atop the same cliff each year on Samhain night. Hidden inside are the last four works of the dead bad poet Vigilance Ghosterington. Those four poems are worth a fortune, and you, famous adventurer Jubilee Grief, are determined to find them.

Winner of Ectocomp 2012.


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1st Place - EctoComp 2012


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For release 3 of Ghosterington Night, I updated the source code to compile in what is, as I type, the latest Inform (6L38). So if you'd like to see commented source code for a fully-functioning Inform 7 6L38 game, here's an example.

I've also included the game's title song and title graphic so that anyone can compile the whole end product.

(Game-wise, release 3 is just release 2 with a couple of microscopic typo fixes and prose tweaks.)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Monster Mash, December 3, 2012
by Sam Kabo Ashwell (Seattle)

The design of this short piece is not unlike Clarke's debut Leadlight: you are a cute, athletic young woman exploring a macabre setting, getting attacked by wacktastic monsters, and dying a lot. This version, however, is a straight-up treasure hunt. In tone it's more of a light-hearted Halloweeny romp, though there are still a few genuinely macabre images.

You are pursued around the house by two monsters, the clockwork girl and the terror statue; remaining in a room with them results in your death. You can avoid them by moving away (though they may come after you), or by shooting them with your limited supply of bullets. Also limited is a central room, which kills you the third time you enter it. Although the treasures you're looking for (terrible, but highly valuable poetry) are hidden, they're only nominally so; the trick is about finding enough breathing space to look for them, and finding genuine treasures rather than useless scraps.

For a game produced within the time constraints (Ectocomp's slightly weird setup: three hours of coding, as much preparatory writing as you like), it's impressively tight design, and everything pretty much works as it ought to. Poking at the scenery too hard is not to be advised, but in general you won't have much time to do so. There are some sound principles at work here, but for me it wasn't quite entertaining enough to stick at; that sodding clockwork girl was far too persistent, and working out which things hid the genuine poems was too trial-and-error, given that I usually had to burn up a bullet to get one. Too much of my gameplay was spent running in circles, trying to make a swipe at that damn armadillo shell and getting headed off by monsters every time.

This seems to be designed as an intentional challenge, but my frustration level for replay is fairly low. If I'm not encountering new content or discovering new strategies, I don't really want to keep hammering away at the same puzzle time after time. That hurdle is what stops this game from being a generally strong piece, as opposed to just a strong piece given its time constraints.

[Review originally posted on intfiction.org]

Note: this review is based on older version of the game.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
A little combat simulator running around a house grabbing poetry, July 16, 2017
by MathBrush
Related reviews: 15-30 minutes

In this game, you run around a 3x3 house filled with independent hostile NPCs who chase you. You need to evade or shoot them and find four treasures hidden in the house.

The randomized combat can be hard, but if you expect it coming in, it can be a lot of fun. I found 2 poems and ran, and I was satisfied with my ending.

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