Have Orb, Will Travel

Jim MacBrayne 2023

Language:: English
Authors:: Jim MacBrayne
Systems:: BASIC
Platforms:: PC
Genres:: IF Comp 2023
Entered by:: Canalboy, iamaran
Added:: 18-01-2025
Edited:: 22-02-2025

Synopsis

You've spent a lifetime travelling and solving problems for others, but on this occasion have you bitten off a little bit more than you can chew? Where will you find that elusive orb, or has The Council's faith in you been misplaced?

Notes

Joint 57th place (out of 74) in the 29th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2023).

'Have Orb, Will Travel' is a text-only interactive fiction fantasy game, very much in the 'old-school' style. It was written from the ground up for the PC using qBasic64, and has a comprehensive and powerful parser. Included in the game are detailed HELP instructions, and it also has comprehensive hints, both implicit and explicit, which can be accessed using the command HINT.

It is written for Windows on the PC, but can also be run on MacOS using Cross Over or on Linux using WINE.