To Hell in a Hamper

To Hell in a Hamper
Game
Main links	Play onlineDownload IFDB IF Archive
Published	2 August 2003
Credits
Author	Jason Guest
Reception
Events	ADRIFT Spring Comp 2003 1st of 3 XYZZY Awards 2003 Finalist: Best Game, Best Setting, Best Story, Best use of Medium, Best Writing InsideADRIFT Awards 2003 Best Game, Best Small Game InsideADRIFT Awards 2003 Most unusual setting/plot ADRIFT End Of Year Comp 2003 1st of 6
IFDB rating	4 out of 5 (114 ratings)
Gameplay
Interaction style	Parser
Literary genres	Comedy Steampunk
Location	One-room
Language	English
Cruelty scale	Polite
IFDB play time	30 minutes
Accessibility	Colour: optional. Graphics: yes, cover art in all versions. Sound: none.
Technical details
Authoring systems	ADRIFT 4, TADS 2, Inform 7
Formats	ADRIFT 4, TADS 2, Glulx
IFID	ADRIFT-400-D12D6FD3C8C65D448675EB7EC2F4E194, TADS2-047E3CF57E2CB9C3F43CEE5D5C6BB558, 13EA9076-0346-420E-AD30-92ADB57117AE
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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. (There's also imagined box art for the Acorn version.)

Versions

Competition Release

Date: 13 September 2003

• To Hell in a Hamper (J. J. Guest; 13-Sep-2003; ADRIFT 4).
  • IFID: ADRIFT-400-D12D6FD3C8C65D448675EB7EC2F4E194
    IFID links: IFDB.
  • Beta testing by: Ambrosine and Liz Parnell.
  • 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 from the IF Archive (contains game file and walkthrough).

Release 1 TADS Port

Date: 17 March 2004

• To Hell in a Hamper (J. J. Guest; 17-Mar-2004; TADS 2).
  • IFID: TADS2-047E3CF57E2CB9C3F43CEE5D5C6BB558
    IFID links: IFDB.
  • Beta testing by: Dan Shiovitz, Phil Swinbank and Tommy Herbert.
  • Download hamper.gam from the IF Archive.

Acorn port

Date: 2006

• To Hell in a Hamper (porter: Dave Edwards; 2006; BBC BASIC).
  • Originally ported to the Acorn Electron by Dave Edwards in 2006.
    • To Hell in a Hamper - review from EUG #67, an issue of the online magazine for Electron users, at the Acorn Electron User Group site.
    • 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.
    • Game page on Acorn Electron World.
    • Solution for Electron version - at CASA, the Classic Adventures Solution Archive.
  • Later bugfixed and compressed for better performance, in 2019 and 2023.
    • Forum thread.
    • Play online or download for the BBC Micro.

Inform 7 port

Date: 12 April 2017

• To Hell in a Hamper (J. J. Guest; 12-Apr-2017; Glulx).
  • Release 1 / Serial number 170412 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib 6/12N)
  • IFID: 13EA9076-0346-420E-AD30-92ADB57117AE
    IFID links: IFDB.
  • Beta testing by: Roody Yogurt, Hanon Ondricek, Peter Mattsson, and Chandler Groover. (request for beta testers)
  • Download To_Hell_in_a_Hamper-r1.gblorb from the IF Archive.

• To Hell in a Hamper (J. J. Guest; 17-Dec-2019; Glulx).
  • Release 2 / Serial number 191217 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib 6/12N)
  • IFID: 13EA9076-0346-420E-AD30-92ADB57117AE
    IFID links: IFDB.
  • Download To_Hell_in_a_Hamper-r2.gblorb from the IF Archive.

• To Hell in a Hamper (J. J. Guest; 07-Mar-2022; Glulx).
  • Release 4 / Serial number 220307 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib 6/12N)
  • IFID: 13EA9076-0346-420E-AD30-92ADB57117AE
    IFID links: IFDB.
  • Download To Hell in a Hamper.gblorb from the author's website. (Or play online there.)

• To Hell in a Hamper (J. J. Guest; 11-Sep-2023; Glulx).
  • Release 5 / Serial number 230911 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib 6/12N)
  • IFID: 13EA9076-0346-420E-AD30-92ADB57117AE
    IFID links: IFDB.
  • Download To_Hell_in_a_Hamper.gblorb from the IF Archive.

Links

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

• Old game page, at the author's website.
• To Hell in a Hamper (archived) - at Baf's Guide.
• To Hell in a Hamper - at IFDB.

Reviews

• Delron review compilation by various reviewers.
• Review - by Emily Short for IF-Review.
• Review - at SPAG, by J. Robinson Wheeler.

Spoilers

• ClubFloyd transcript.

Note: To refer to this game from another page, you can type {{game citation|To Hell in a Hamper}}. This will display as To Hell in a Hamper (Jason Guest; 2003; ADRIFT 4, TADS 2, Inform 7; Glulx).

Date: 13 September 2003

Date: 17 March 2004

Date: 2006

Date: 12 April 2017