A spy's heist, an appetizer for IFComp authors & judges...

As we say in Italy, “gli ultimi giorni/ore sono sempre più lunghe”, I have a nifty little idea, a tiny parser IF, written in few days, which I hope allow unwinding and relax to IFComp authors and a little warm-up for judges & reviewiers.

It’s written in Inform 6/standard library and is very tiny, 8 rooms and two and half puzzles, and rated “merciful”.
What perhaps is the most interesting feature, in trying to minimise my proverbial bad english, I have limited rooms & object descriptions to 1-4 80 column lines (~80-300 characters) aside the opening and ending text, which are around 10-12 lines (~1k characters) and can be solved in ~20-25 moves.

of course, for keeping my little surprise, and knowing that everyone else is busy with the 'Comp, there was no ßtesting, so I apologise for possible bugs and/or inconsistencies.

Without further ado, here is:

heispy.z5 (67.5 KB)

(of course, later I’ll upload it in the IFArchive)

hope that my little present will be welcome, and

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

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the one time I went to Italy I saw a guy with an apron that said “Un uomo senza pancia è come un cielo senza stelle” But thanks for the appetizer!

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We who have pancie appreciate you saying that!

I admit that I’m in the mid-50s, :smiley:

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

I am going to play your Game by now.

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I have played and reached the end, now I am sensing you the transcript.

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Good news! I have defeated the enemy!

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Pending play.

Milano is on my bucket list. :wink:

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UPDATE: just uploaded to your nearby and friendly IF Archive.

There will some time when processing, of course, in the meantime is downloadable from the top post here.

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

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