The Beast of Torrack Moor
An interactive fiction by Linda Wright (2007) - the Inform 7 source text
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Section 1 - Initialisation
Include Default Messages by David Fisher.
[Also uses Locksmith by Emily Short, but in a modified form - it can be found at the end of the main story]
Use MAX_PROP_TABLE_SIZE of 200000.
Use full-length room descriptions.
The release number is 2.
Release along with a solution,
source text,
a website,
cover art,
a file of "Complete Map (PDF - contains spoilers)" called "BeastMap.pdf".
The story headline is "A Village Mystery".
The story genre is "Mystery".
The story description is "Something is terrorizing the little village of Puddlecombe. As a young reporter with the Lowsea Gazette, you must pacify your grumpy editor by getting the big story...what exactly is the Beast that prowls Torrack Moor? The original game was written in 1988 for the Spectrum by Linda Wright. This Inform 7 version is by Steve Haddon and is distributed with permission of the author."
The story creation year is 2007.
The maximum score is 150.
The carrying capacity of the player is 8.
After printing the banner text, say "[line break](c) L. Wright/Marlin Games 1988. Inform 7 version written in 2007 by Steve Haddon, with permission. First time players please type ABOUT."
Figure of the Map is the file "map.png".
When play begins:
seed the random-number generator with 1234;
change the time of day to 9:20 AM;
change the left hand status line to "[the player's surroundings] / moves [turn count] / score [score]";
change the right hand status line to "Time: [time of day]";
say "This morning started out much as normal: you awoke to the sound of the radio as it spluttered into life, dozily dragged yourself out of bed and eventually arrived at work, having washed, dressed and breakfasted on soggy cornflakes in between these two major events.[paragraph break]Settling down at your desk, you blearily shuffled various things around until the morning post was unceremoniously dumped in front of you. Yawning, you cast aside the normal boring reports from the various local societies and council committees and were about to doze off when you noticed a small envelope with spidery writing on the outside...".