Chesterland Adventure

MS-DOS · 1995 · WOR

· Developer: Garrett Birkel · Genre: Adventure

This is clearly a game written as an exercise, the author explicitly stating he used it to learn to program in Borland C, but unlike most such ''hello, world'' prototypes (ostensibly the first in a series of ''RoachCrunch'' exercise-games, but the only one ever seen), it remains nonetheless a complete game. The tropes are familiar: royalty have lost valuable items and require their return, while exploration is thwarted with colour-coded locks -- can the player find or trade items for the quest objects and progress through the disjointed story via accessing more remote map areas? Instead of playing it straight with a poker face while mangling ''thee''s and ''thou''s, however, the author has strewn the game landscape with his high-school friends and titans of '90s industrial music. Gameplay consists of navigating a roguelike-ish top-down text-symbol map, seemingly a reel cut from LORD 2, using the keyboard arrows and a handful of verbs (at least, the first letters of the verbs) to interact with the world. There is no combat, though there are a couple of sudden deaths and walking-dead situations.

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