Lost Pig

Lost Pig
Game
Main links	Play onlineDownload IFDB IF Archive
Published	30 September 2007
Credits
Author	Admiral Jota
Reception
Events	XYZZY Awards 2007 Winner: Best Game, Best Individual NPC, Best Individual PC, Best Writing XYZZY Awards 2007 Finalist: Best NPCs, Best Puzzles, Best Setting, Best Use of Medium IFComp 2007 1st of 27
IFDB rating	4.5 out of 5 (526 ratings)
Gameplay
Interaction style	Parser
Literary genres	Comedy Fantasy
Location	Underground
Language	English
Cruelty scale	Merciful
IFDB play time	2 hours
Accessibility	Colour: none. Graphics: none. Sound: none.
Technical details
Authoring system	Inform 6
Format	Z-code 8
License	Freeware
IFID	ZCODE-1-070917-994E
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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?

Trivia and Comments

• The author entered LP0 into TWIFcomp as a prequel in 2010.

Versions

Release 1

Date: 30 September 2007

• Lost Pig (Admiral Jota as "Grunk"; 30-Sep-2007; Z-code 8).
  • Release 1 / Serial number 070917 / Inform v6.30 Library 6/11 S
  • Beta-testing by Emily Short, Jacqueline A. Lott, Sam Kabo Ashwell and Dan Shiovitz.
  • IFID: ZCODE-1-070917-994E
    IFID links: IFDB
  • 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 from the IF Archive - The story file.

Release 2

Date: 6 April 2008

• Lost Pig (Admiral Jota as "Grunk"; 06-Apr-2008; Z-code 8).
  • Release 2 / Serial number 080406 / Inform v6.30 6/11
  • Download LostPig.zblorb from the IF Archive (or bare z8).

Links

N.B. Many IF Archive games are temporarily unavailable in the UK.

General info

• Lost Pig (archived) - at Baf's Guide
• Lost Pig - at IFDB
• Grunk's Journal, with entries from 2002-3 detailing Grunk's time in the army.
• I couldn't sleep last night... (archive) Blog post by Neophyte, 07 December 2010, features a green Lost Pig tribute t-shirt reading "Grunk& Pants& Pig& Gnome."

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.
• Exploring the 'Best Games': Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota - by Mathbrush.
• 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 (archive) 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 from the IF Archive - Walkthrough by the author.
• ClubFloyd transcript.
• Geek Interactive Fiction Club thread.

Note: To refer to this game from another page, you can type {{game citation|Lost Pig}}. This will display as Lost Pig (Admiral Jota; 2007; Inform 6; Z-code).

Date: 30 September 2007

Date: 6 April 2008