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Strike Force
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About the game
Strike hard, strike fast! Strike Force is a multinational team of special operatives who keep the world safe from HAVOC, an organisation of cackling villains with a fondness for doomsday weapons. In the previous episode HAVOC showed off a new energy beam by blasting a world landmark, and now the team has tracked down a secret HAVOC laboratory sitting on the seabed of the Arctic Ocean.
You take charge of commander Raven, a field leader and security expert, and her partner Snowdrift, a specialist in everything to do with ice and snow. Their mission is simple to state: get in, find evidence of the plan, get out, and leave no trace. The story opens with the pair floating outside the station's airlock, five hundred fathoms down.
Christopher Drum wrote Strike Force in a week for PunyJam #3, in 2023, where every game had to start in or at an airlock, and it shared second place. It is presented as "Part 3" of an imaginary cartoon series, complete with a "previously on" recap, banter and a theme-song slogan. The tone is light and the action is mostly sneaking, tinkering and problem solving.
Playing it here
Click Play now and the story starts in the player. The opening titles wait for
a key press before going on. After that, type a command after the > prompt
and press Enter. The game is in English.
Commands
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
fore, aft, port, starboard (or f, a, p, sb) |
move around the station, ship style |
look (l) |
describe where you are again |
examine (x) something |
look closer |
open, take, use, push, pick something |
the actions the infiltration relies on |
inventory (i) |
list what you are carrying |
undo |
take back your last move |
save / restore |
keep your progress in this browser and load it back |
A few things worth knowing
Think like a field agent. The two characters have different skills, and the game tells you in italics whenever you change who you are controlling.
Read the room descriptions closely. Panels, vents and equipment are often described in enough detail to suggest how they work.
There is no help on the way. The game has no hint system, so undo and a
spare save are your friends when an idea goes wrong.
It is short. One sitting is enough to finish the episode.
Credits and licence
Strike Force was written by Christopher Drum for PunyJam #3. The version served here is Release 1 (serial 230227), the file the author published on the IF Archive. The author released the source code under the MIT licence in his GitHub repository, and the game is built with the PunyInform library by Fredrik Ramsberg and Johan Berntsson, also under the MIT licence. Both licence texts are linked from this page.