On Wednesday, February 28, 2024, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! (Sorry for the late post; I intended to post this last month.) Some of these walkthroughs were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more new walkthroughs for works of interactive fiction at Patreon and Ko-fi.
The Little Match Girl 3: The Escalus Manifold (2023) by Ryan Veeder (as “Hans Christian Andersen”)
In this RPG fantasy tale, you again play as Ebenezabeth Scrooge, the little match girl who is now a time-traveling assassin-for-hire. Your target is the Snow Queen, a powerful sorceress who uses Shards from the evil Mirror of Belial to control her servants. You dare not face her alone. Find four fellow warriors to join you in your quest. Trounce your foes, level up, and prevail!
IFDB | My walkthrough and maps
The Little Match Girl 4: Crown of Pearls (2023) by Ryan Veeder (as “Hans Christian Andersen”)
It’s December 1848. You play as Ebenezabeth Scrooge, the adopted daughter of Ebenezer Scrooge, and you travel through time and space whenever you look at fire. You’re known as a time-traveling bounty hunter and vampire slayer; now Queen Victoria is your client. Find and deliver pearls to the Fairy Realm so their new prince may be crowned.
This game was an entry in IF Comp 2023 where it took 3rd place.
IFDB | My walkthrough and maps
The Little Match Girl against the Universal Sisterhood of Naughty Little Girls (2023) by Ryan Veeder (as “Hans Christian Andersen”)
In this game, you play as Ebenezabeth Scrooge, a young woman whose primary talent is to travel to other times and places by looking at fires. But hush. Concentrating, filling your revolver with fire, you shoot a blast of hot radiance at a scarecrow. In its straw head, a splinter of the hated Mirror of Belial is destroyed, but the scarecrow itself is unharmed. “Well done!” cries Hrieman the crow, who doesn’t mind the rain at all. “But how do you know the Universal Sisterhood of Naughty Little Girls is responsible?”
This game takes place soon after The Little Match Girl 4: Crown of Pearls.
IFDB | My walkthrough and maps
Redux (2023) by Shawn Sijnstra
In this game, you play as someone who can’t tell if their eyes are open or not. Your surroundings keep changing. Sometimes you’re lying on a lawn, wracked with pain; or you’re in a starship, red lights flashing; or you’re in a greenhouse with lush plants; or you’re in the RAM space of a computer, watching data zoom by. Something’s wrong and you have to fix it.
This game was an entry in PunyJam #4 where it took 4th place. The game is also available for other platforms.
IFDB | My walkthrough and maps
Fish Bowl (2012) by Ethan Rupp and Joshua Rupp
In this tiny horror game, you play as Larry Wyndham, the drunk beachcomber. Your skin is sweating. You live a simple life in this shack. Everything you need, the sea will provide. Eventually. But when did you get a fish bowl?
This game was an entry in IF Comp 2012 where it took 12th place.
The Locked Room (2023) by Chris Schneider
In this simple underimplemented one-room escape game based on a handful of jokes, you must find a way to eat, drink, and escape from a locked room.
Tower (2009) by Vivienne Dunstan
In this tiny game, you play as an elderly person who is somehow transported to a mist-shrouded garden outside a tower. Explore the tower and find a way home.
This game was a participant in the Interactive Fiction Writing Month event of February 2009, during weeks 1 and 2.
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