Lost Pig

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Fantasy Comedy Under­ground IF Comp 2007 1st of 27 XYZZY Awards 2007 Best Game, Best Writing, Best Individual NPC, Best Individual PC XYZZY Awards 2007 Finalist - Best Setting, Best Puzzles, Best NPCs, Best Use of Medium

Lost Pig
Author(s)	Admiral Jota
Publisher(s)	n/a
Release date(s)	30-Sep-2007
Authoring system	Inform 6
Platform(s)	Z-code 8
Language(s)	English
License(s)	Freeware
Multimedia
Color	none
Graphics	none
Sound/Music	none
Ratings
Cruelty scale	Merciful

Contents 1 How It Begins 2 Notable Features 3 Versions 3.1 Release 1 4 Links 4.1 General info 4.2 Reviews 4.3 Spoilers

How It Begins

Grunk orc. Grunk work on pig farm. Grunk lose pig. Boss tell Grunk go find pig.

Grunk fall down hole. Land on torch. Torch go out. Now what Grunk do?

Notable Features

Versions

Release 1

• Lost Pig (Admiral Jota as "Grunk"; 30-Sep-2007; Z-code 8).
  • Beta-testing by Emily Short, Jacqueline A. Lott, Sam Kabo Ashwell and Dan Shiovitz.
  • IFID: ZCODE-1-070917-994E
    Babel: metadata, download. (Babel services at IF Archive are not yet available.)
  • IF Comp 2007: 1st place of 27 entries.
  • XYZZY Awards 2007: Winner of 4 awards: Best Game, Best Writing, Best Individual NPC (the gnome), and Best Individual PC (Grunk). Also, finalist in 4 categories: Best Setting, Best Puzzles, Best NPCs, and Best Use of Medium.
  • Download lostpig.z8 ( ftp, random) from the IF Archive - The story file.

Links

General info

• Lost Pig - at Baf's Guide
• Lost Pig - at IFDB

Reviews

• Review by Sam Kabo Ashwell.
• Review by Daphne Brinkerhoff.
• Review by J. D. Clemens.
• Review by Chris Dahlen for A.V. Club.
• Review by Andreas Davour.
• Review by Stefan Donati (Shuarian).
• Review by Jason Dyer.
• Review by David Fletcher.
• Review by Hipolito.
• Review by N. B. Horvath.
• Review by Denis Klotz.
• Review (in Russian), (English translation) by Valentine Kopteltsev (uux).
• Review by Jimmy Maher.
• Review by Michael Martin.
• Review by Rob Menke.
• Review by Wendy Moon.
• Review by Carl Muckenhoupt.
• Review by Wesley Osam.
• Review by Marnie Parker.
• Review by Cathy Saxton.
• Review by Scramble125 - at Jay is Games.
• Review by Dan Shiovitz.
• Review by Emily Short.
• Review by Emily Short at Play This Thing!
• Review by Mike Snyder.
• Review by Benjamin Sokal.
• Review by Mark J. Tilford.
• Review by David Whyld.
• Review by Jake Wildstrom.
• Review (in Russian), (English translation) by zerrr.

Spoilers

• Download walkthru.txt ( ftp, random) from the IF Archive - Walkthrough by the author.
• ClubFloyd transcript.