Martin from TorontoSo BBC released an online version of the Hitch Hickers guide to the Galaxy text adventure game. enhanced 30th anniversary edition. And guess what folks, it's fully screen reader friendly, Enjoy! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-game-30th-anniversary-edition
Hehehe Weird socks? Love your screen name!
I think I may know you. :)
Okay, I just read my post and that sounded creepy. :) I worked with someone by the same name a few years back.
James Scholes
Lynette@mcourcel Sweet, I am playing this later on.
π³οΈβπ Dion π€πΏπ@mcourcel And it's still using the Infocom release of the game. I'm actually surprised they haven't used the new Zilf ZIL compiler system to compile a new version.
@jaybird110127 Yup, but there are little differences. For example, when you die, you can still try to do things and it makes fun of you.
@mcourcel The original Infocom game does that under some circumstances.
@jaybird110127 Oh does it? It's been a while. I did finish that one, just don't remember how it ends.
ChloΓ© Raccoon@mcourcel @jaybird110127 "do <x>" "you can't do that, you're dead" etc *nods*
α΄ uΙα‘@mcourcel damn I can't get past 10 points. I guess I need to re-read HHGTTG π
@dannotdaniel I think you need to stay lying in front of the buldozer after Ford leaves. Then that dude comes over and says for you to go away for a while and he'll take your place.
@mcourcel I was laying there but I didn't know what to do except wait.. ah well
@dannotdaniel Yup, I did the same thing. Hehehee
@mcourcel i dunno it lost it's appeal when I can't DO anything except wait and die.
zork was better, he should have given the money to Infocom
@dannotdaniel Did you try either Planetfall or Stationfall? Those were pretty cool.
@mcourcel no, I think I played a few Zorks including the VGA Zork Zero... and maybe dabbled in a Superman text adventure once upon a time ions ago, and don't recall any of THAT
Dan Riley@dannotdaniel @mcourcel HHGTTG was an Infocom game, with Adams working with Steve Meretzky (who also did Planetfall).
If you want really frustrating, try Adams's Bureaucracy, which is explicitly built around being frustrating. Apparently he liked (designing) frustrating games.
Anyway, maybe now I can figure out what to do with the pocket lint, never could get past that.
@dan131riley @dannotdaniel Oh jeez! I know. That was ridiculous! Did yuo hear the radio interview about the making of HHGT? It's on internet archives, complete with really corny commercials. I posed it earlier today, but it's kind of cool to hear those characters talking about the game.
OK I get it, I guess. In the spirit of the thing. The joke is on the player.
I am fine with 10 points. I would have liked to get to 42, but I am fine with 10 points.
I stood up. I died. I tried going anywhere else, I died. I waited, I died. I examined and tried to interact with everything the game described, including giving every object or throwing every object at everything else int he game, and I died.
I even gave away my towel. An obvious no-no. It was used to clean the mud off of some boots and then I died.
hearty har har, developers.
@dannotdaniel @dan131riley You have to wait until the dude behind the boldozer tells you to leave and he'll take your place.
@mcourcel @dan131riley I could not make that happen. I would just die after like 50 something moves
Ian Malcolm@dannotdaniel @mcourcel @dan131riley
It takes two moves to progress from lying in the mud after the dozer stops.
When Ford arrives and offers you the towel, don't take it. Instead say:
Ford, what about my home
Then wait once.
Prosser and Ford talk, Prosser agrees to take your place, and you can get up and follow Ford to the pub.
(Slightly spoilery hint: If you persevere with it, buy the sandwich at the pub and feed it to the little dog when you leave. Otherwise you can't win. Seriously.)
@dan131riley @dannotdaniel @mcourcel "which is explicitly built around being frustrating." IIRC, this happened after DNA moved, and the dealings with his bank drove him to codify the experience....
lp0 on fire 
@dannotdaniel, did Mr Prosser take the eggs?
@lp0_on_fire eggs hmm I didn't have any eggs π
@dannotdaniel, then what were you laying? If you don't say, the default is eggsβ¦
arclight@mcourcel @dannotdaniel TAKE THE JUNK MAIL.
Antiqueight@mcourcel I've never survived the bedroom
@Antiqueight Wha wha what? Lol! Turn on light, get up. get gown. Look in pocket. Take pill. get all. south. get mail. South Lie in front of boldozer. How the heck do I remember this sstuff? lol!
@mcourcel I got as far as turning on the light......
@Antiqueight Hehehe lol! Yeah, it definitely takes patience.
@Antiqueight As a blind person, it was one of the first real actual commercial games that I could play independently.
wolfie πΊ@Antiqueight @mcourcel I played with a friend in school and we died laughing cos we told Arthur to tidy the bedroom, which lead to the game saying that he barely had time to enjoy the newly tidy room as suddenly his house was demolished, closely followed by the earth π
@wolfie @Antiqueight Yeah, there are little ffunny things through out the game. It's hilarious!
ππ π‘ππ¦ptoothfishπ¦ππ‘π π@mcourcel @Antiqueight because this game took hours and hours of our livesβ¦ just a guess
@ptoothfish @Antiqueight Yup. My friend and I spent hours on the phone figuring things out. In other words, we had no lives. Lol!
Zen Zero β―οΈ β―
Brett R@mcourcel One of the only computer games that I actually completed, though be warned there is at least one thing the will highly annoy you about it.
To this day, I remember it's a house, not a home.
@swiftone Oh and I think there's an Easter egg in there. If you type "escape" without the quotes and press Enter.
Jeremy BornsteinBut I have no tea.
chris martens@jjb drop no tea
@mcourcel take all. take everything. drop nothing. pick up everything you see or are offered. even, and this will only make sense later, down to the junk mail by the door.
awaikoI always got stuck when the rest of the party disappeared into the spa (or sauna?). More frustrations await me, apparently.
@mcourcel I'm a bit confused, because the keyboard seems to be buttons on the screen rather than a text input. How do I type into this thing?
@jscholes Look for the edit box and go into focus/forms mode. Then you can just type, press enter and it should read the result automatically.
Wade McGillis@mcourcel direct link to game:
Deus@mcourcel A majority of my (close) friends in college read it, liked it, and would then talk about it. But I could never go beyond the first page. "It's trippy.." is what the majority of them used to say.
So, asking again. What's the big deal about this book?
@Deus Well, the book does ramble on in some parts. I would suggest listening to the BBC radio dramas first. That's what I did and then enjoyed the books a lot more.
Joshua A.C. Newman (he/they)
Eliot Lash@mcourcel Hehe awesome. This game is funny and fiendishly difficult. I played the old BBC web version years ago, back when I was an editor for H2G2 :)
I remember finishing the infamous babelfish puzzle although I don't remember if I used any hints. I don't think I got much further though, it's a difficult game!