Mrs. Pepper's Nasty Secret

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Mrs. Pepper's Nasty Secret
Author(s)	Jim Aikin and Eric Eve
Publisher(s)	n/a
Release date(s)	16-Feb-2008
Authoring system	TADS 3
Platform(s)	TADS 3
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 Version 1.02 (Competition release) 4 Links 4.1 General info 4.2 Reviews

How It Begins

Walking home from school is mostly okay, except for one big problem: Every day you have to pass right by Mrs. Pepper's house. She may not actually be a witch, but she sure acts like one. She's ugly and crabby, and she seems to go out of her way to cause trouble for you. The time she came at you with the garden rake, swinging it like it was a giant claw... you still shudder when you think of it.

Notable Features

• The puzzles have been designed so that a player who manages to solve this game will know almost everything he needs to successfully grapple with other games: he will know how to talk to NPCs, how to find hidden objects, how to overcome darkness, and so on. This was done to make Mrs. Pepper's Nasty Secret a good introduction to IF for beginners.
• There is, however, no maze in Mrs. Pepper's Nasty Secret.

Versions

Version 1.02 (Competition release)

• Mrs. Pepper's Nasty Secret (Jim Aikin and Eric Eve; 16-Feb-2008; TADS 3).
  • IFID: 9C8B2FBA-BB69-5767-E8D4-74EEFA08DACA
    Babel: metadata, download. (Babel services at IF Archive are not yet available.)
  • IFBeginnersComp: placement to be determined.
    • Download IFBeginnersComp2008.zip ( ftp, random) from the IF Archive - The story file for this game is pepper.t3.
  • Interactive Short Fiction Competition: 1st place of 4 entries.
    • Download pepper.t3 (the story file) from the Interactive Short Fiction Competition website.
    • Download pepperSrc_v102.zip (the source code) from the Interactive Short Fiction Competition website.

Links

General info

• Mrs. Pepper's Nasty Secret - at Baf's Guide.
• Mrs. Pepper's Nasty Secret - RGIF thread.
• Mrs. Pepper's Nasty Secret - at IFDB .

Reviews

• Reviews by Emily Short.