Key & Compass presents:
A Dodecapedic box
by Zeno Pillan

• Map
• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • ASCII art, Characters, Credits, Inventory
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Map

Walkthrough

The game first asks if you want to "visualize Ashii art", but the author is really asking if you want to see ASCII art.

>> yes —or— no

Provincial road (two locations)

> x me. i. (carrying nothing)

> x box. x legs. x road.

> w. (no: you want to get away from the box)

> e. (You find a sloping street to the south.)

> s.

Sloping road (two locations)

> s. (You find a dirt road to the east.)

> e.

dirt road (west end)

The box stops and looks sad without a face.

> x box.

> e.

dirt road (east end)

> x car. open it. (locked)

> u.

Wild garden

> x trees. x wire. take wire.

> d.

dirt road (east end)

When you unlock the car, the wire leaves the game.

> unlock car with wire.

> open car. look in car.

> x billhook. take it.

> u. n.

Vegetable garden

You can only take the zucchini if you have the billhook to cut it with. When you take the zucchini, the billhook leaves the game.

> x zucchini. take it.

> x lines. x grass. x bushes.

> s. u.

Clearing

You can only enter the hut if you're carrying the zucchini.

> x hut. x door. n.

Concrete hut

> x painting. take it. x frame.

> x dresser. open it. x tassels.

> look in dresser. x photo. take it.

> s. d. d. w.

dirt road (west end)

The box isn't interested in the photo or frame separately.

> put photo in frame.

> give photo.

*** The End ***

Extras

ASCII art

This game features some ASCII art, which it calls "Ashii art" for some unknown reason.

• How can I recognize real memories from dreams?

           ,,,,,,,,,,,,, 
       ,,,;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;,, 
    ,,;;:;;;""";;;;:::.-":::;;, 
   ;;::;"        ";;;::.- -"::;; 
   ;;:;;.           ";;;::..::;" 
    ";;;"              ";;;;;" 
  

• open car

   _____ 
   \\___\ 
    ||___|_______ 
    //   /_/__|__\--, 
   :|___|:_\__|__|__<: 
    ((c=((o) ((c=((o) 
  

• examine billhook

   ,   n_______)\ 
   |NNN|_________\ 
  

• examine zucchini

     _.~._          _.~~._ 
   ./. ,__)       ./   .  \. 
   |  |:         ,I "      I 
   I . \_________/  .    . | 
   "\__"  ..  " ___/  . "_/" 
       "~~~~~~~~~~~~~~""" 
  

• put photo in frame

   O"^-._~u~_.-^"O 
   \+===========+/ 
   (|           |) 
   /|   +---+   |\ 
   )|   |.(.|   |( 
   )|   | { |   |( 
   \|   +---+   |/ 
   (|           |) 
   /+===========+\ 
   O_.-^"~^~"^-._O 
  

Characters

• A Dodecapedic box is following you on a provinicial road. It's a long box with twelve human-sized legs.
• The wooden door of the concrete hut won't let you enter unless you carry a zucchini.

Mentioned:

• Your grandpa. After you put the framed photo on the box, it has your grandpa's face.

Credits

This is the response to ABOUT:

A Dodecapedic box is a 498 words interactive fiction written by Zeno Pillan for the Neo-Twiny Jam 2024 in June 2024

Inventory

• a Steel wire. It's in the wild garden.
• At the east end of the dirt road, unlock the car with the wire. (The wire vanishes.)
• Billhook. This cutting tool is inside the locked car at the east end of the dirt road.
• You can only take the zucchini from the vegetable garden if you have the billhook. (The billhook vanishes.)
• Zucchini. It's in the vegetable garden, but you need the billhook to take it.
• The zucchini is your pass into the concrete hut.
• Frame. In the concrete hut, when you take the Mona Lisa, the picture fades away, leaving only the frame.
• Put the passport photo into the frame to create a framed photo.
• Passport photo. It's inside the dresser in the concrete hut.
• Put the passport photo into the frame to create a framed photo.
• Framed photo. Create it by putting the passport photo into the empty frame.
• Give the framed photo to the dodecapedic box to win the game.

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