On the Farm

On the Farm
Game
Main links	Play onlineDownload IFDB IF Archive
Published	1999
Credits
Author	Lenny Pitts
Reception
Events	IFComp 1999 7th of 37
IFDB rating	3.5 out of 5 (16 ratings)
Gameplay
Interaction style	Parser
Location	Farm
Language	English
Accessibility	Colour: none. Graphics: optional. Sound: none.
Technical details
Authoring system	TADS 2
Format	TADS 2
License	Freeware
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How it begins

(The game first informs the player about the about, version, commands, hints, photo, and credits commands.)

You might be any young person, possibly a teenager, wearing sneakers, jeans, and a t-shirt, but carrying nothing. Your mom has just unceremoniously dropped you off for the weekend at Grandma and Grandpa's run-down farm where they don't even have electricity! You'll be so bored!

As you enter the porch — which features Grandpa's rocking chair, planks stained with tobacco juice, the handrail, the mail bin, and wind chimes, — you catch the tail end of a vicious argument between your grandparents, ending with your Grandma slamming the door behind her as she storms back inside. Grandpa welcomes you and tells you he's "in a pickle" with Grandma and asks if you can help find a way to get her to forgive him.

Trivia and Comments

• The optional graphics only appear at the beginning and end of the game. They are not needed to play the game.

Versions

Competition entry

Date: 1999

• On the Farm (Lenny Pitts; 1999; TADS 2).
  • IF Comp 1999: 7th place of 37 entries.
  • Download otf.gam from the IF Archive - The story file.
  • Download trcolor.dat from the IF Archive - Color file, to be used if using the DOS TR runtime.
  • Download readme.txt from the IF Archive - Author's blurb.

Links

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

General info

• On the Farm (archived) - at Baf's Guide.
• On the Farm - at IFDB.
• On the Farm - at ifwizz interactive fiction (in German).

Reviews

• On the Farm - at SPAG.
• On the Farm - at IF Ratings.
• Review - by Paul O'Brian.
• Review - by Dan Shiovitz.
• Review (archive) - by Duncan Stevens.

Spoilers

• Download walkthru.txt from the IF Archive - Walkthrough.
• Walkthrough and map by David Welbourn.

Note: To refer to this game from another page, you can type {{game citation|On the Farm}}. This will display as On the Farm (Lenny Pitts; 1999; TADS 2).

Date: 1999