Mushroom Hunt

It's so nice to have you back at Grandma's cottage! I can't believe I made this a full five years ago. It feels like only last year. Writing the game was very therapeutic. I wrote it at a time as I was coming to terms with some of the flawed people in my life and understanding that love is a complex and nuanced thing. I'm glad that shines through if only a little.

I hope you too have a great life :~)

I know you commented three years ago, but I must have opened the comment in another tab to reply and then eventually had to shut down.

Thanks so much for engaging so sincerely with the game.

There is a common magic word used in interactive fiction games that most hardcore players try out. I don't even remember if it does anything.

Thank you for playing. I hope you eventually tried textmode art!

Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

Thank you!

I can't quite remember. It may be a setting in itch.io, but I also remember changing the default CSS so that the content scales to the screen differently than the default.

Showing the different mushrooms would've been great! If I ever revisit I'll have to plug that in.

Your end game experience will also change depending on the events that occur in the game - whether you get prickled by thorns, or stung by bees, what you do or don't know of your parents, or if you see the easteregg. I don't think anyone has ever seen them all. I'm not sure if anyone has ever seen the hallucination monster ending, and at this point even I can't remember how to get it :~)

Thank you so much for playing. I hope you enjoyed mixing the mushrooms.

Thanks for noticing! How annoying. That'll be down to the engine's default behaviour for 'examine' looking for an object. I think that's why I created the 'look' command (that and accessibility reasons). Must be an engine thing because it looks like the message appears after you've examined the sycamore tree once. If I ever revisit the code I'll be sure to fix this, alongside things like 'listen/hear' and 'smell' text.

Good work on finding so many mushrooms! The ending changes under many different situations, not just the completion of the game. If you find no mushrooms, for example, or if you add different mushrooms to the stew, or if you don't find certain objects.

If I got your juices running for text games, also check out "Hunter, in darkness", "A dark room" and "Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and home".

Thanks so much for investing so much time into the game! If you want to complete it 100% you should also try different combinations of mushrooms: they trigger different lines of ending text which describe different aspects of the story.

In the expected run of the game it's not possible to go beyond the gate. There's a room for the path, but it's empty. The exit is just there to make the world seem larger.

People who get out early can see the lake monster.

Did you also remember the holidaymakers? Have you seen the mural? Did you remember your parents? Have you had any of the halucination endings?

Also useful to know: You can use a SAVE command to save the game's state once you have all the mushrooms. However, getting scratches/stings may also effect the endings - as well as remembering (or not remembering) certain events.

There is special text for the lake monster if you meet a certain set of conditions clued in the game. Which mushrooms did you find?

Thanks so much for playing! :)

Thanks so much :)

The picture is a reference to an old computer game called 'Hunt the Wumpus' - a game credited with being one of the very first survival horror games. The Wumpus is illustrated in textmode.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_the_Wumpus

The holidaymakers memory is findable a few layers deep near a hillside.

Congratulations on finding all the mushrooms!