How to Play

New to interactive fiction? No problem! This guide should help you to get started. 

Overview 

Text parsers can only understand very simple phrases. It's best to keep things simple, or the game won't understand what you're trying to do - for example, if you're trying to examine a big red book, instead of typing "examine the big red book" try "examine book" or "x book". 

When starting a game, it's often a good idea to take a good look at your surroundings and examine everything in the room to see what things you can interact with.  You can even try typing x self to find out who you are (this is definitely worth doing in Zennor, as you will be playing as different characters throughout)! 

A few tips for Zennor: 

Make sure you x self when a new scene begins (you'll see the name of the character appear at the top of the screen), it'll help you to get a better understanding of who you are. 

Examine everything in a location before moving on - you might find something interesting! 

ASK people ABOUT things - they might tell you something interesting! 

Some of your actions will affect what happens in future scenes. 

General Commands 

Try these general commands: 

Look 

Examine [a thing] 

Inventory

Take [a thing]

Drop [a thing] 

Put [a thing] on [a thing]

Ask [a person] about [a thing] 

Exit

North, South, East, West 

You can also try: 

Cast [fishing rod]

Reel in [a thing

Jump 

Sing 

Panic 

Swim 

Shortcuts 

There are a number of sneaky shortcuts that can be used to save you from typing out lots of text to perform common tasks. Here is a list of the ones that you will find helpful when playing Zennor: