For an example of how I chose to approach it, I’ll share my output for these commands from my only complete parser game ever, The Land of Breakfast and Lunch. I took some care to give a unique answer for each of these commands. You’ll notice in addition to a general description about the game for about, I also use it to mention the license.
> about
You’re playing The Land of Breakfast and Lunch, a kind of game or a fictional miniverse where you can walk around and waste your time. There is not a lot of point to it, so just look around and poke around and enjoy yourself, if you like that kind of thing.
There’s only one puzzle and you won’t miss much if you don’t solve it.
All versions of The Land of Breakfast and Lunch are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license. In summary, you may freely distribute, perform, or create derivative works, but not for commercial purposes without permission from the author. More information is available at CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US Deed | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States | Creative Commons.
> help / hints
The Land of Breakfast and Lunch is a little place for you to walk around in and look at every little detail. There are a couple of little tricky things you can accomplish, but there’s really no point other than to look at everything and smell everything and laugh at my dumb little jokes. Sometimes people don’t notice the toy box in The Land of Unrealized Possiblities. Sometimes people don’t realize you can “open hatch” and “enter rocket” when you’re near the 1950’s rocket. Yes, there’s one little puzzle and it involves the jack-in-the-box, but don’t get too concerned about it. If you need any other help you can just email me at danieltalsky@gmail.com. I’m happy to help.
> credits
The Land of Breakfast and Lunch was written by Daniel Talsky and is a [[Rabbit,Rabbit]] production.
http://rabbitrabbit.cityInspiration and 3-D modeled cover art by Hypothesis Archer
http://reptilemind.comThe game’s generous and thorough beta testers include:
- Jason “Always Be Testing” Dockins
- Mike “The Pious” Tarbert
- Caleb “No Stone Unturned” Wilson
- Josh Grams
- Matthew George
- Michael “Space Swimmer” Baltes
- Daniël Worm
- Nick Gauthier
Special thanks to Mike “The Lord is His Shepherd” Tarbert for extensive testing PLUS actual code help.
Last, but not least, I’d like to thank you, the player, personally. You could be watching Better Call Saul or reading Fyodor Dostoevsky or playing pinball. Instead, you’re taking the time to explore something I made and I really appreciate it. I had fun making this, but most of the fun was imagining you doing what you’re doing right now. Reading the credits. No, I mean playing the game.
If you’re curious at all about my other thought-processes for the game, I did a pretty thorough postmortem for it.