To Hell in a Hamper

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One-room Comedy ADRIFT End of Year Comp 2003 1st place InsideADRIFT Awards 2003 Best Game InsideADRIFT Awards 2003 Most unusual setting/plot InsideADRIFT Awards 2003 Best Small Game ADRIFT Spring Comp 2003 1st place XYZZY Awards 2003 Finalist - Best Game, Best Writing, Best Story, Best Setting, Best use of Medium

To Hell in a Hamper
Author(s)	Jason Guest
Publisher(s)	n/a
Release date(s)	Apr-2003
Authoring system	ADRIFT and TADS 2
Platform(s)	ADRIFT and TADS 2
Language(s)	English
License(s)	TBD
Multimedia
Color	optional
Graphics	yes, cover art in both ADRIFT and TADS versions
Sound/Music	none
Ratings
Cruelty scale	Polite

Contents 1 How It Begins 2 Notable Features 3 Trivia and Comments 4 Versions 4.1 Release 1 Competition Release 4.2 Release 1.1 4.3 Acorn Electron port 5 Links 5.1 Reviews

How It Begins

Professor Pettibone, eminent Victorian balloonist, has a problem. He can't get it up. His balloon that is. If he can't reach an altitude of 20,000 feet, and soon, both he and his mysterious travelling companion Hubert Booby will be burned to a cinder by an erupting volcano! But what is Mr. Booby concealing under his overcoat?

Notable Features

• Instead of a score, you have a reading on the altimeter.

Trivia and Comments

• This is one of the ADRIFT Recommended Games put together in 2005 by the ADRIFT Forum.
• This game is mentioned in the prologue for Crimson Detritus (Mystery; 2003; ADRIFT 4).
• The cover art is presented a little differently in each version. In ADRIFT, the cover art appears in its own window and has the title and author's name in white in the bottom left corner of the basic balloon image. In TADS, the cover art is presented centered in main text window, and is the basic balloon image without text on top of it. The cover art on IFDB and IFWiki has the basic balloon image enclosed in a "Wild West" frame that contains the title and author's name text.

Versions

Release 1 Competition Release

• To Hell in a Hamper (Jason Guest; 2003; ADRIFT).
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  • ADRIFT Spring Comp 2003: 1st Place
  • ADRIFT End Of Year Comp 2003: 1st Place.
  • InsideADRIFT Awards 2003: winner "Best Game", "Best Small Game" and "Most Original Plot/Setting".
  • Download ToHellInAHamper.zip ( ftp, random) from the IF Archive

Release 1.1

• To Hell in a Hamper (Jason Guest; 2003; TADS 2).
  • IFID: TADS2-047E3CF57E2CB9C3F43CEE5D5C6BB558
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  • Download hamper.gam ( ftp, random) from the IF Archive

Acorn Electron port

• To Hell in a Hamper (porter: Dave Edwards; 2006; Acorn Electron).

The relevant links are:

• To Hell in a Hamper at the Acorn Electron User Group site. The game is due to be released with EUG #67, an issue of the online magazine for Electron users, in March 2007.
• To Hell in a Hamper released for Acorn machines - thread on the ADRIFT Forum, started December 27, 2006. Jason didn't know about this port at first, but he sounds supportive as long he can get a copy to play on his Electron emulator.

Links

• Ground Chuck - Jason Guest's information Site
• To Hell in a Hamper - at Baf's Guide.
• To Hell in a Hamper - at IFDB

Reviews

• SPAG review - by J. Robinson Wheeler.
• IF-Review review - by Emily Short.