COMPLETE: Heather's Easter Egg Hunt
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kjorteoToday is Easter, and Dr. Dos recommended this game, so what the heck.
Heather's Easter Egg Hunt is an old text parser adventure that appears to have been a personal project, like the father coded this as an Easter present for his actual daughter? I think? I could be wrong but it sure feels that way. Somehow it ended up being preserved on archive.org, though, so now we all can play it.
You are Heather, and you must go on an Easter egg hunt, only this one is virtual, presented in the form of this very game you are playing! Type the appropriate commands to move around and EXAMINE and GET items, UNLOCK doors, etc. Your kid brother sometimes appears out of nowhere and latches onto your leg and won't let go until you give him either a toy or one of your eggs. (Protip: He does not start appearing until you have at least one egg, so you can scope out the entire house, collect everything except the eggs, write down all the clues and locations and such, and then go back through the house again and scoop them all up.) There is a secret door and three gated hints to its location (must have four eggs to read the first hint, must have read the first to read the second, etc.) To win the game, the player must collect all twelve eggs, then find and open the secret door while still having all twelve eggs (that is, without surrendering any to your brother.) There are collectible toys that serve no purpose other than being a decoy item to give your brother to fend him off without losing your eggs, and I ended up using all of them by the time I won. The reward is a congratulations text with a blurb about the author's next upcoming game which should be ready around mid to late 1990.
Okay, so this was kind of basic, but it was topical, and it was cute. It'd fit right into IFComp and be far from the worst thing I've played there (I'd maybe give it a 7 if I were scoring it by IFComp standards.) Short and sweet (in the literal wholesome "aww" sense of the word) and... hey, I did an Easter egg hunt. Haven't done one of those since I was a kid. This was neat.
Heather's Easter Egg Hunt is an old text parser adventure that appears to have been a personal project, like the father coded this as an Easter present for his actual daughter? I think? I could be wrong but it sure feels that way. Somehow it ended up being preserved on archive.org, though, so now we all can play it.
You are Heather, and you must go on an Easter egg hunt, only this one is virtual, presented in the form of this very game you are playing! Type the appropriate commands to move around and EXAMINE and GET items, UNLOCK doors, etc. Your kid brother sometimes appears out of nowhere and latches onto your leg and won't let go until you give him either a toy or one of your eggs. (Protip: He does not start appearing until you have at least one egg, so you can scope out the entire house, collect everything except the eggs, write down all the clues and locations and such, and then go back through the house again and scoop them all up.) There is a secret door and three gated hints to its location (must have four eggs to read the first hint, must have read the first to read the second, etc.) To win the game, the player must collect all twelve eggs, then find and open the secret door while still having all twelve eggs (that is, without surrendering any to your brother.) There are collectible toys that serve no purpose other than being a decoy item to give your brother to fend him off without losing your eggs, and I ended up using all of them by the time I won. The reward is a congratulations text with a blurb about the author's next upcoming game which should be ready around mid to late 1990.
Okay, so this was kind of basic, but it was topical, and it was cute. It'd fit right into IFComp and be far from the worst thing I've played there (I'd maybe give it a 7 if I were scoring it by IFComp standards.) Short and sweet (in the literal wholesome "aww" sense of the word) and... hey, I did an Easter egg hunt. Haven't done one of those since I was a kid. This was neat.
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Date: 2021-04-04 07:37 pm (UTC)