Blorp! is a Z-machine interactive fiction game written with Inform 6 and is © 2023 by Shawn Sijnstra. It was an entry in PunyJam #3, where it took 6th place.
In this small game, you're the owner of an underwater brewery, and you're just back from vacation. Having a brewery underwater has been a great sales gimmick, but Dave's sent you a cryptic messsage that something's gone wrong, so now you need to clean up whatever mess he's left for you.
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 1 of the game.
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Main Brewery
> x fermenter. x panel.
> look in fermenter. (Not while the yeast is so active.)
> n. (Some of the yeast follows you!)
Brewery Staging Area
The yeast blocks the south exit.
> x yeast. (not actually here.)
> s. (not while angry yeast blocking doorway)
> x panel. (controls the air and water pumps)
> n. (The yeast follows you.)
Main Corridor
The yeast blocks the south exit.
> e. (The yeast follows you.)
Brewery Airlock
The yeast block the west exit.
> x inner door. x outer door. x panel.
> x fill. x drain. x stop.
> close inner. push fill. (water is knee deep)
> push stop.
Note: The inner door won't open if the water is more than knee deep. If you filled the airlock too much, push the drain button and try again.
> open inner. (+10. The saltwater destroys the angry yeast.)
> w. n.
Storeroom
> x hook. (+10; you find your scuba gear)
> x gear. take it. x hook. x drain.
> x shelf. search shelf. (You grab a repair kit.)
> x kit.
> s. s.
Brewery Staging Area
> x panel. repair panel. (using the kit)
> n. n.
Storeroom
> search shelf. (You grab a second repair kit.)
> s. s. s.
Main Brewery
> x panel. repair panel. x panel.
> x fermenter. look in it. (+10; you find a key)
> take key. x key. (for the strong box)
Er, what strong box? You didn't see one anywhere inside the brewery, so it must be outside.
> n. n. e.
Brewery Airlock
> close inner. wear gear.
> push fill. z. z. z. z. z.
> open outer. e. u. u.
Water surface
> x fish. x ladder. u.
Headland
> remove gear. w. (no, not done with the brewery)
> x scrub. search scrub. (+10)
> x box. unlock box with key. open box.
> x food. take it. hide box. wear gear.
> d. d. d. w.
Brewery Airlock
> close outer. push drain. remove gear.
> open inner. w. s. s.
Main Brewery
> x yeast. give food to yeast. (+10)
> n. n. e.
Brewery Airlock
> close inner. wear gear.
> push fill. z. z. z. z. z.
> open outer. e. u. u. u.
Headland
> remove gear. w. (no, not with the gear)
> search scrub. put gear in box.
> close box. lock it. hide it.
> w. (+10)
*** You have won ***
Mentioned:
This is the response to CREDITS:
Many thanks to Nick Maher and Natalie Maher for their testing, feedback and suggestions.
Thanks also to the PunyInform coders and the PunyJam #3 organisers, Fredrik Ramsberg and Johan Berntsson, and to Garry Francis for generously sharing code from his library. Thanks also to the broader PunyInform and IF community for making game writing a fun experience.
Also, you can make the game unwinnable. If you go straight into the storeroom, the angry yeast blocks the doorway out and you're trapped, unable to progress.
This is the response to SCORE:
You have so far scored your-score out of a possible 60, in several turns. Progress-statement.
[Either] You haven't used any hints. [or] You have used number hints.
Points are awarded as follows:
These are the known progress statements:
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