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Lost Pig (And Place Under Ground)

Admiral Jota · 2007

Grunk lose pig. Grunk find pig. How hard can be?

Play

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  • Z-code
  • Comedy
  • Parser
  • About 1.5 hours
  • 279 KB

About

You are Grunk, an orc of limited vocabulary and unlimited good intentions, and you have lost a pig. The pig has gone down a hole. Grunk go down hole too.

What makes Lost Pig remarkable is that its whole comic voice lives in the parser. Grunk narrates everything in his own broken, cheerful English, and the game has an answer for a startling number of things you might type — including the ones you try purely to see what it says. It won the 2007 Interactive Fiction Competition and is one of the most-recommended starting points in the form.

Tags

  • Beginner friendly
  • Comedy
  • Fantasy
  • Short

History

This chronology includes the world around Lost Pig (And Place Under Ground): 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

    Lost Pig (And Place Under Ground) published — by Admiral Jota

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

  2. Lampward

    Playable release — Release 2

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

Documents & sources

  • reference · Reference

    Lost Pig on IFDB

    Reviews, ratings and release history for the game and its Release 2 revision.

    IFDB

  • reference · Reference

    Lost Pig on IFWiki

    Background, competition results and the game's several packaged releases.

    IFWiki

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Credits & License

Credits
Admiral Jota. Winner of the 2007 Interactive Fiction Competition.
Playing
Lost Pig (And Place Under Ground) — Release 2, Z-code 8, serial 080406
IFID ZCODE-2-080406-A377
License
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Use
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0: Lampward may host and serve the unmodified story file with attribution, for noncommercial use only.
Source
Notices

Copyright © 2007 Admiral Jota.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License. You may copy and redistribute the unmodified story file, with attribution to the author, for noncommercial purposes. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

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