Save the Cheshire Cat! is a comedy text adventure written in Inform 6.
You're still having your drink when Mario bursts into the bar and says that the Cheshire Cat is missing! It is an unruly feline that meows all the time and pees and poos everywhere. But it is also the mascot of the club: without it your friends can't organize any other event, so it's a matter of life and death to find it as soon as possible.
To move from one place to another within the game world, you have to use the directions >north (or just n), >south (s), >east (e), >west (w), >up (u), >down (d).
The command >inventory (i) prints the list of the objects you have, while >look (l) shows the description of the place where you currently are.
The verbs you can use in this game are: get, examine, give, ask [someone about something], answer, wait, sing, sleep, listen, wear, remove, open, close, unlock, lock, hit, empty, pour, play, eat, drink, burn (and many others).
Examining the furnitures and the details mentioned in the descriptions of the places allows you to find hidden objects and important information. By speaking with the other characters you can know what you have to do to obtain their help.
You can also >save your progress on a file, >restore it or check your >score.
To read these instructions during the game type >instructions. To have information about the software license type >license. To have information about the game and is author type >info.
Have fun!
My name is Marco Vallarino, I was born in 1977 in Imperia, where I live. I work as a journalist at the newspaper Il Secolo XIX. I've written novels and short stories and I've published many books, but my real passion has always been the interactive fiction. Since I was a kid, I've played tons of text adventures, in Italian and in English, and I've also tried writing some games, using first Qbasic and later on Inform.
My works Darkiss, Ayon, Enigma have been pubished by important Italian computer magazines, such as Win Magazine, Computer Bild, Giochi per il Mio Computer, Linux Pro and Idea Web. They've also had a good 'success' on the web, with over 50.000 downloads and tons of enthusiastic feedback from Italian players.
Save the Cheshire Cat! is my first attempt to translate a game from Italian to English, with a little help from my friend Emilio Audissino, who works as a researcher at University of Southampton, so be kind to it :)
It's a mini text adventure about a missing cat; it's very simple and short, but I hope it's also funny.
I'll be glad if you let me know what you think about the style and the design of the game, writing to marcovallarino @ hotmail.com. If you want to view the source code, just ask for it.
I'm also on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
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Save the Cheshire Cat! is a multi-platform game. This is the Windows version, but you can also play it on GNU/Linux, Mac OS, iOS, Android systems using the Z-code file that you can download from Interactive Fiction Archive. In this case, you need an interpreter, such as Gargoyle, Frotz or Text Fiction.
You can also play the game online by clicking here.