Key & Compass presents:
Camping!
by Gunther Schmidl

Camping! is a Z-machine interactive fiction game written with Inform 6 and is © 1999 by Gunther Schmidl. It was an entry in InventoryComp, also known as I-Comp, where it took 2nd place. There were only two entries.

In this teeny-tiny joke game, you play as someone going camping. Just grab your backpack and go!

This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 666 of the game.

Walkthrough
Extras
- Characters, Inventory
Thank You to my Patreon supporters
External links:
- This joke game at IFDB, IFWiki, and ifwizz.
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Walkthrough

The idea behind InventoryComp is that the player-character never has any inventory, and this was clarified to mean that whenever the player enters the INVENTORY (or I command), the game will always respond with You are empty-handed or whatever the equivalent default response your authoring system normally produces.

So, playing by the rules of the competition, if not the intent, this is what Gunther submitted.

Hallway

> take backpack. i. open backpack.

> x stuff. take stuff. n.

*** You have won ***

Extras

Characters

Mentioned:

Your friends are waiting for you outside.

Inventory

Honorable mention:

a backpack. It's in the hallway. Take it. But! It's not listed in your inventory, however. Y'see, you're wearing it over your shoulder, so you remain "empty-handed". Har-har-de-har-har.
stuff. It's inside the backpack. You aren't willing to take the stuff out of the backpack.

Thank You to my Patreon supporters

This walkthrough is provided free of charge since I wrote this walkthrough prior to January 2015 when I began my Patreon account, and also because the work it's based on has less than fifteen locations (so I wouldn't have charged for it anyway). I've since reformatted this walkthrough to use my currently preferred style. I hope you enjoy it!