I am so sorry that I’m so dumb here. I’m trying to figure out how to get my idea to work with anything but just one room.
There’s one major action through the whole game; something like SEARCH. Like if there are 3 holes here, search each one. Once they are all searched and the player has all the information about where they lead, then the player can pick one from a menu to jump into. Then it’s the same in the next area.
Is that OK? It’s SEARCH all the way, but when all are searched, getting a menu that shows you all 3 and letting you pick a number. Which seems like 2 actions, but Onno was able to have FORWARD in his game as well as the one correct action. Every other verb is disabled (except in the first area where I have EXAMINE enabled, too, since it’s OK to have more than one action in one room).
I have a feeling this isn’t OK, but you never get anything you don’t ask for.