Key & Compass presents:
Amusement Park
by Penczer Attila

• Map
• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters, Credits, Inventory, Score
• Thank You to my Patreon supporters
• Support me on Ko-Fi
• External links:
  • This game at IFDB, and IFWiki.
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Map

Notes:

• The mansion is exited from whichever room you opened the hole in.
• The house of mirrors is made of several locations with randomized directions, so it's impossible to say exactly which direction you'll use to leave it.

Walkthrough

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Entrance

> x hut. x window. e. open hut. (no door)

> search hut. (+10; found a ticket)

> x ticket. read ticket. ("for Sidney")

> n.

Middle of the Park

> x box. x lever. pull lever. x map.

> n.

Snack Bar

> x window. x counter.

> x pliers. take pliers.

> x cone. take cone. eat cone. (+5)

> s.

Middle of the Park

> pull lever with pliers. (+10; pliers stuck where they are.)

> listen to box. (humming)

> ne.

Mansion

> x mansion. in.

Hall

Door slams shut behind you!

> x furniture. x table. x fruits. eat fruits. (they evade you)

> x chandelier. x armor. search armor. (it moves)

> u.

Cellar

> x graffiti. ("Beware of Premature Convergence")

> u. (you stop, seeing a barrel)

> x barrel. search barrel. ("Plugh!")

> plugh. (a voice laughs)

> u.

Hall

> d.

Top of the Stairs

> x portraits. search portraits. (one shakes her head)

> n.

Bedroom

Every bit of furniture has the same description:

> x bed. x bookshelf. x nightstand. x cabinet. x piano.

> open cabinet. x slot machine.

> pull lever. z. z. z. (ejects a black thing)

> look. x portable hole. take hole.

> unfold hole. (It's now spread on the floor.)

> enter hole. (+10; you're back at...)

Mansion

> sw. e.

Near the Slide

> x slide. x sand. (+5; found a carpet)

> x carpet. x ladder. x frames.

> x rabbit. climb rabbit. (+5)

> climb ladder.

Top of the Slide

> slide. (You fail to have the fun you desire.)

Near the Slide

> u.

Top of the Slide

> drop carpet. sit on carpet. slide. (+5)

Near the Slide

> take carpet. u.

Top of the Slide

> drop carpet. sit on carpet. slide. (+5)

> w. se.

Merry-go-round

> x creatures. x panel. x switch. push switch.

> get on saddle. (+10; you enjoy the ride then dismount)

> nw. sw.

Ferris Wheel

> x wheel. x swings. x panel.

> push switch. enter swings. (+10)

> ne. w.

In Front of the Mirror House

> x house. x pedestal.

> in.

House of mirrors (several locations)

The maze is randomized, but it's also not a real maze. Choose any valid direction while in the house of mirrors to move forward. After seven moves, you'll be outside again.

> DIRECTION. (Repeat until outside: +10)

In Front of the Mirror House

> e. nw.

Cavern

> x panel. x canoe. push switch. (Nothing happens.)

> e.

Darkness

> x wall. x peg. push peg. (+5; you hear water pouring)

> w.

Cavern

> push switch. (The wire pulls the canoe away and returns it.)

> enter canoe. push switch. (+10)

> out. se. s.

Entrance

> s.

... leave the park? yes

Extras

Characters

This is a solo-adventure; no one else is in it, not even animals. However, we can make a short list of representations of creatures:

• Alice of "Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carrol is quoted at the beginning.
• Someone named Sidney is mentioned on the ticket.
• Several animals, particularly a rabbit, are pictured as part of the frames near the slide.
• Some creatures with saddles are part of the merry-go-round.
• A man, reminiscent of Quasimodo, supports the merry-go-round's control panel in his hunch.
• Suits of armor are in the mansion. One moves if you get too close.
• Your reflection looks at you both in the mansion's barrel, and in the mirror house.
• Some portraits are in the mansion's upstairs hallway.
• A voice in the mansion yells "Plugh" at you.

Credits

The text from the park_readme.txt file:

Amusement Park
Written for the Commodore 32 Contest - 2004
Copyright (C) Algol (Penczer Attila, email redacted)

This game is freeware. It may be used and distributed freely provided no commercial profit is involved, but comes WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.

Due to the size restriction of the contest, the game is missing some functionality found in other text adventures. The following things don't work:

1. TAKE ALL
2. OOPS/UNDO
3. Compound commands (OPEN CHEST AND TAKE ALL FROM IT)
4. He/she/it processing
5. SCRIPT commands (transcript can only be turned on at the beginning of the game)
6. HELP/INFO/HINTS (see the enclosed walkthru.txt file for a walkthrough of the game)

Thanks to Graham Nelson (for the inform compiler), Dave Bernazzani (for the mInform library), Sidney Merk (for spending countless hours betatesting the game), and you (for playing it).

Inventory

• a ticket. Acquire it by searching the hut at the entrance.
• You don't need to use the ticket for anything, but you do get points for acquiring it.
• a pair of pliers. They're in the snack bar.
• In the middle of the park, turn the lever with the pliers. The pliers will now be stuck there, but that's fine.
• a marzipan cone. It's in the snack bar.
• Eat it.
• a portable hole. In the tiny bedroom, pull the tiny lever of the tiny slot machine in the tiny cabinet; a few turns later, the machine will eject the hole.
• Unfold (or open) the hole, then enter it to escape the mansion.
• a carpet. Acquire it by examining the sand near the slide.
• Take the carpet to the top of the slide, sit on it, then slide. Do this twice.

Score

The response to SCORE is:

You have scored your-score out of 100 (finishing some out of 7 playthings), in several turns.

Points are awarded as follows:

• 10 points for acquiring the ticket.
• 5 points for eating the marzipan cone.
• 10 points for activating the box in the middle of the park.
• −10 points for de-activating the box.
• 10 points for escaping the decaying mansion.
• 5 points for acquiring a carpet.
• 5 points for sliding down the tall slide on the carpet.
• 5 points for sliding down the slide again.
• 5 points for climbing the rabbit frame near the slide.
• 10 points for riding the merry-go-round.
• 10 points for riding the ferris wheel.
• 10 points for traversing the mirror house.
• 5 points for turning on the water for the canoe ride.
• 10 points for riding the canoe ride.

The playthings are:

1. The mansion. Finish this plaything by escaping it via the black hole.
2. The slide. Finish this plaything by sliding down the slide while sitting on the carpet.
3. The rabbit frame near the slide. Finish this plaything by climbing it.
4. The merry-go-round. Finish this plaything by successfully riding it.
5. The ferris wheel. Finish this plaything by successfully riding it.
6. The mirror house. Finish this plaything by escaping it.
7. The canoe. Finish this plaything by successfully riding it.

Thank You to my Patreon supporters

This walkthrough was funded via Patreon with

• the support of Robin Johnson, Ville Lavonius, Andrew Schultz, Kenneth Hon, Carl Muckenhoupt, Mark Musante, and Phil Tatro;
• the generous support of Janice M Eisen and Matthew Foxley;
• the very generous support of Karl Ove Hufthammer;
• the extremely generous support of Emily Short, Allen Garvin, Jesse McGrew, Jacqueline Ashwell, Marius Müller, Jennifer Rexrode, Durafen, and Rus Whang;
• and the invisible support of several anonymous patrons.

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