If you recall, back in April a Mountain Time panel was sold for the price of a text-based adventure game. Well, the game has been almost completely written and partially coded, but we (by which I mean me and Pseudonym_, the guy who’s doing all the work) are interested in seeing if anyone has any ideas for Easter Eggs — references you’d like to see, Mountain Time-related or not — to suggest for inclusion. This is probably the best chance you’ll have to influence a text-based game this month, so don’t be shy!
Feature characters/inanimate objects named after Kentucky Derby Horses?
Also, secret book cover reviews, obviously enhanced by the lack of graphical support.
>Examine room
You see a door facing East, a door facing West, a couple facing their fear of commitment and a pile of books.
>Look at pile of books.
You see several books, including but not limited to Utopia Hunters, The World Swappers and Earthman’s Burden.
>Review Utopia Hunters
From the look of its cover, Utopia Hunters is just another story about a couple of jerks who ride around on the back of a flying mountain lion-manta ray hybrid. Oh, and at least one of them wears a cape. That
Two words. Dead Condors.
The doors in panel 3 look so happy… I wish I was as happy as the goddamn secret peddlers.
Epamynondas: Thanks for reminding me that I had another review in the queue!
Talwraith: Well, yeah.
Klear: Sorry to ignite your door envy.
I didn’t see this comic when it went up yesterday, and yet I somehow managed to have the idea pop into my head that same day of intentionally naming an unspecified object “nomics”, so that in the course of a discussion about the topic one might conceivably be able to say “ergo, nomics”. I’m not in character as Trying To Be Funny Internet Commenter, either, I’m actually serious.
On the topic of the game, how about an undocumented command that lets you invoke Lenny? “tell lenny to knock Debra’s teeth out” or something similar, only you give it whatever name you want, and it spits back ” just got kicked by Lenny the Fuck You Zebra!”
Oh, balls. My last comment used angle brackets around the word “name” to indicate a placeholder as part of the last sentence, and the comment system stripped it out. The command would obviously return the person’s name in that blank space.
isto: No need to apologise. Let it burn and good riddance.
That’s why I stick to toaster strudels