Hotel Grindell.

This is a game written in Inform that is a companion piece to the May 2024 calendar (which acts as a sort of illustrated strategy guide to the game). Click here to play Hotel Grindell.

Game status as of 5/16: Everything’s basically up and running! Message me if some verbs or situations are too maddening.

The object of the game is to turn on the Death Ray. Playfic/Inform games respond to plain English commands (interactive tutorial here). The most common ones are:

• “go [direction]” or simply “[direction']”: e.g. “go southwest” “southwest” or even “sw” to travel southwest.

• “take [object]”/ “drop [object]”

• “examine [object]” or “x [object]”

• “inventory” or “i”: check to see what’s in your inventory.

Click here for a quick, interactive tutorial for playing games on playfic.