Thanks to Katherine Morayati’s discussion of the Gone Out for Gruyere blurb I have belatedly learned of the Cheese Rating scale for interactive fiction.
I wonder–where does Cragne Manor fall on this scale? I can think of at least one place where cheese is likely to occur (the tavern, especially on the secret menu), but I don’t remember for sure, and due to my tragic computer accident of December I no longer have access to the alpha version that would allow me to debug-command my way to checking this expeditiously. And as you may remember, it would take something like ten hours to fully explore that location. And I can’t access my save files, since due to the aforesaid computer accident they live on someone else’s computer, and I’ve already spent the morning annoying the person on whose computer the save files reside with cheese-related spoonerisms.
Anyway if there isn’t cheese in the game it certainly deserves a spot in the Cheez Whizz hall of ignominy, as a game set in Vermont without cheese. Peaches and more peaches and a meatpacking plant, forsooth!
(@maga and @ChrisC, any advice? Chris, I particularly thought there might be some in your procedurally generated stuff.)