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Counterfeit Monkey

Emily Short · 2012

An island where you can remove a letter from a thing and be left with what remains. A duck becomes a duc; a monkey becomes a money.

Play

SAVE creates a named Lampward checkpoint on this device. Nothing is saved automatically.

  • Glulx
  • Puzzle
  • Parser
  • About 10 hours
  • 10.8 MB

About

Counterfeit Monkey is built on one idea taken further than seems reasonable. You carry a letter remover: point it at an object, take a letter out of its name, and the object becomes whatever the shorter word means. A crate becomes a rate. Bread becomes bead. The whole island is a puzzle box made of spelling.

It is one of the most admired parser games of the modern era, and one of the most generous — it carries an enormous amount of implementation so that the ideas you have actually work. Emily Short released it under a Creative Commons licence, which is why it can be here.

Tags

  • Classic
  • Large
  • Puzzles
  • Wordplay

History

This chronology includes the world around Counterfeit Monkey: background that may predate the game, its creation and publication, and later editions, research, and preservation. An early date is historical context, not necessarily a game release.

  1. Publication

    Counterfeit Monkey published — by Emily Short

    The publication year for the work itself. Earlier entries are historical background, not earlier releases of the game.

  2. Lampward

    Playable release — Release 10

    The exact release Lampward currently serves. It may be a later edition or port of an older work.

Documents & sources

  • reference · Reference

    Counterfeit Monkey on IFDB

    Reviews, awards and release history.

    IFDB

  • source archive · External archive

    Counterfeit Monkey source code

    Emily Short

    The Inform 7 source, and the repository whose README carries the licence Lampward hosts this on. It is also a well-known teaching text: the implementation depth that makes the game work is all readable here.

    GitHub · CC BY-SA 4.0

Rights to these documents are separate from rights to the game. Lampward links to archives it may not mirror, and says so rather than implying it holds a copy.

Credits & License

Credits
Emily Short.
Playing
Counterfeit Monkey — Release 10, Glulx 3.1.2 in a Blorb, serial 210312
IFID 7B5A779B-4653-43DB-A516-F475DDC12987
License
CC BY-SA 4.0
Use
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0: redistribution and adaptation are permitted, including commercially, with attribution, and anything built from it must carry the same licence.
Source
Notices

Copyright © 2012 Emily Short.

Counterfeit Monkey is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. You may share and adapt it, including commercially, provided you give attribution and license your contributions under the same terms. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Artwork
No cover art is used; the title card is generated by Lampward.

Rights to the game binary, to cover art, and to any documentary material on this page are separate. A permission covering one does not cover the others.

More bibliographic detail: this title on IFDB