The Fifth Continent is a Z-machine interactive fiction game written with Inform 7 and is © 2019 by Daniel Gunnell. It's the sequel to The Computer Lady, also published in 2019.
In this small game, you play as a tourist in Kent. You've always been curious about the Romney Marsh, so you're going to take a walking tour through it and see what you can find.
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 1 of the game.
SPOILERS AHEAD. Reading a walkthrough prematurely can sometimes diminish one's enjoyment of an interactive fiction game. Please make an honest effort to play the game before reading this walkthrough.
Note: Although the game strongly suggests playing The Computer Lady first, I don't think it's really necessary. There's only one location and character in common between the two games.
Church Approach
> verbose.
> i. x rucksack. open it. x guidebook.
> e.
High Street
> x billboard. (for an IF workshop at Marsh Academy)
> e. e.
The Romney Marsh
> x sheep. x mailbox. open it.
> take leaflet. x it.
> se. s. w. s.
Greatstone Beach
> x sand. take sand. (It's gone!?)
> w.
Littlestone Beach
> x ground. n. w.
Denge Marsh
> x cactus. nw.
The Bird Reserve Entrance
> x cows. x pigeon. x David.
> ask David about ANYTHING.
> ask David about ANYTHING.
> ask David about ANYTHING. (He leaves after the third time.)
> n.
A Shop
> x book. take it.
*** You have won ***
> amusing
Have you tried...
- Typing XYZZY in Church Approach?
- Asking David about something while he's in Church Approach?
- Taking various objects?
Mentioned:
The closest thing to credits in the game is this paragraph from the guidebook:
The Fifth Continent is a work of interactive fiction. If you've never played this type of game before, you move around by typing in compass directions and reading a screen full of text. In this game, the sequel to The Computer Lady, you need to deliberately upset a bird watcher in order to get into writing interactive fiction. (No bird watchers were actually upset during the coding of this game.)
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