Secret of the Starry Depths

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Secret of the Starry Depths is a very short game about a wannabe cave explorer who discovers that when things seem too easy, there's usually a reason. It was originally a demo for the experimental authoring system Adventure Prompt, but when the latter proved to be a dead end, the game was adapted for the Z-Machine and parser-based gameplay.

The game was first created in the autumn of 2016, updated in the spring of 2018, and ported to Inform in May 2020.

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Z-Machine story file (90K)

Inform 6 source code (16K)

Secret of the starry depths is free and open source software:

Artistic License 2.0

The game is also listed in all the usual places, such as the IFDB and IFWiki.

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Page last modified: 12 September 2020

Secret of the Starry Depths running in Zoom (60K)