Help: Interactive Fiction
Text adventure games are not always obvious with which commands they accept. This page tries to curb this by listing every command my text-adventure games respond to. Synonyms for a command are listed in parentheses.
General Commands
These commands are available in all of my interactive fiction.
- Attack [something] (Kick, Crush, Bite, Squeeze)
- Burn [something] (Melt, Ignite, Kindle, Incinerate)
- Cut [something] (Carve)
- Drop [something held] (Set Down, Throw Away)
- Eat [something edible] (Bite)
- End (Escape)
- Enter
- Examine [something] (X, See, View)
- Exit
- Go [somewhere] (Walk, Wander, Proceed, Dance, Stroll Strut, Stride, Sneak, Creep, Rush)
- Hit [something] (Strike, Smack, Injure)
- Inventory ([show] Invent/I/Inv)
- Kiss [something]
- Leave (Depart)
- Look (See, View)
- Put [something] on/in/inside [something else] (Place, Stick, Shove, Stuff)
- Remove [something inside] out of [something] (Get [things inside] [out of] [something])
- Shout [a phrase] (Scream, Yodel, Yell, Holler, Roar)
- Smell [something] (Breathe)
- Start [something] (Activate)
- Start Over (Start Again)
- Stop [something] (Deactivate)
- Throw [something] (Yeet, Hurl, Fling, Toss)
- Take [something] (Grab, Bring, Fetch, Steal, Snatch, Acquire, Yoink, Reach For/To/Towards)
- Put [something] on [something else] (Set)
In addition, the general directions used to GO somewhere are North (N), Northeast (NE), East (E), Southeast (SE), South (S), Southwest (SW), West (W), Northwest (NW), In, Out, Up, and Down.
Christmas Quest
Christmas Quest’s specific available commands are as follows:
- Clean [something] (Wash, Cleanse)
- Enter (Jump On/Onto)
- Exit (Get Down, Jump Off)
- Flush [something]
- Sit On [something] (Sit In [something], Sit Down, Sit, Sit Up)
- Stand On [something] (Stand In [something], Stand, Stand Up)
- Pray For [text] (Pray To)
- Use [a plumbing tool]
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