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Last Day of Summer
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About the game
It is the last day of summer, and for the first time you are old enough to take the harvest to market on your own. You have filled a big basket with cranberries from the bog, and your mother and father are counting on you to come home with a pocket full of coins. Then you reach the river, and the wooden bridge that should carry you into town is gone, torn away by the storm that passed a few days ago.
Turning back is not an option on a day this bright. The riverbank, the fields and, later, the town itself are full of small, ordinary things that turn out to matter: something half-buried in the dirt, a boat tied up downstream, people going about their business. The puzzles are about looking closely and using what you find, and the day moves on as you go, so the hour is part of the story.
Doug Orleans wrote Last Day of Summer for the 2011 Interactive Fiction Competition, under the name Cameron Fox. It is short, quiet and kind, with no combat and no way to come to harm, and makes a good first text adventure.
Playing it here
Click Play now and the story starts in the player. Type a command after the >
prompt and press Enter. The game is in English and understands short sentences
that start with a verb, such as examine posts or go north.
Commands
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
north, south, east, west (or n, s, e, w) |
walk |
look (l) |
describe where you are again |
examine (x) something |
look closer |
take, wear, sit on something |
some of the everyday actions you will need |
inventory (i) |
list what you are carrying |
about |
credits and the testers |
save / restore |
keep your progress in this browser and load it back |
A few things worth knowing
Explore both banks first. Walk up and down the river before you decide the way is blocked; the riverside has more than one stretch.
Examine everything. Small details in the descriptions, such as what is lying on the ground or tied to the bank, are usually the next step.
You do not need to talk. Conversation commands are switched off; people react to what you do and what you show them.
Watch the clock. The day moves forward as you travel, and evening is when you are expected home.
Credits and licence
Last Day of Summer was written by Doug Orleans. The version served here is Release 5 (serial 110930), the IFComp 2011 edition from the IF Archive. The game is free software under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3. The licence text and the source code of this release, from the author's repository, are linked from this page. Only the story file is served; the cover image inside the original package is not included.