Escape from the CIS Building

Escape from the CIS Building
Game
Published	October 2006
Credits
Author	Nick Martineau
Gameplay
Interaction style	Parser
Location	School
Language	English
Cruelty scale	Merciful
Accessibility	Colour: none. Graphics: none. Sound: none.
Technical details
Authoring system	Inform 7
Format	Z-code 5
License	Freeware
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How it begins

You are a male student at the University of Michigan Dearborn, carrying nothing, who fell asleep in an office in the CIS Building. Unfortunately, you've been locked in. All you want to do is find a way to leave the building.

Notable features

• The game geography seems (mostly) based on the real CIS Building. Most of the office doors are coded as scenery items that may be examined to determine whose office it is. Most likely, the people named are the real professors who had those offices in the Fall semester of 2006. Professor Maxim, in particular, is the instructor for the course for which this game was written.
• The room description for the men's washroom is a mere two words long, which may be a record for short room descriptions.

Versions

Release 1

Date: October 2006

• Escape from the CIS Building (Nick Martineau; Oct-2006; Z-code 5).
  • Release 1 / Serial number 061023 / Inform 7 build 3Z95 (I6/v6.31 lib 6/11N) SD
  • UMD 2006: This was a school assignment in the Fall of 2006.
  • Room count: 20.
  • Story file: martineau.z5
  • Source code: martineau.inf
  • Play it online.

Links

General info

• University of Michigan Dearborn CIS 487 games page.

Spoilers

• Walkthrough by David Welbourn.

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Date: October 2006