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John Goerzen

This Christmas, I wrote an game for my kids. It's my first IF effort, and they seemed to enjoy it! You can play or download "The Grumpy Cricket (And Other Enormous Creatures)" from complete.org/the-grumpy-cricke or see the blog post at changelog.complete.org/archive . It's released under the GPL v3.

www.complete.org · The Grumpy CricketThe Grumpy Cricket (And Other Enormous Creatures) is a lighthearted interactive fiction game by John Goerzen. As interactive fiction, it’s like an e-book, but the reader is also the player, guiding the exploration of the world. The Grumpy Cricket is designed to be friendly for a first-time player of interactive fiction. There is no way to lose the game or to die. There is an in-game hint system providing context-sensitive hints anytime the reader types HINT.
Dec 25, 2023, 08:24 PM·Public
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Matt Campbell

@jgoerzen What kind of computer did the 6-year-old play it on, and which interpreter?

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John Goerzen

@matt The three of them played together, with my middle child at the keyboard. They were using my old vt510 connected to a Raspberry Pi running frotz.

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Matt Campbell

@jgoerzen Oh wow. I still don't have any kids of my own (and likely never will), but I'm afraid I spoiled my nieces and nephew with modern consumer tablets (Amazon Fire tablets) years ago. Still, maybe I can get them interested in the web version, which I will now check out to see how well it works with a screen reader.

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Matt Campbell

@jgoerzen I mean, that last part matters to me, not to them.

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John Goerzen

@matt I don't know how well the web version does with a screen reader; it was generated as part of the toolkit with Inform 7. But, I believe fizmo-console would work very well with a text reader, and it should be able to run the Z-code (.z8) version.

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