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Home Party

by Zeno Pillan profile

2025
Inform 7

(based on 1 rating)
Estimated play time: 1 hour and 20 minutes (based on 2 votes)
Members voted for the following times for this game:
  • 1 hour and 10 minutes: "Two endings found." — DemonApologist
  • 1 hour and 30 minutes: "Four endings, referred to code" — MathBrush
1 review3 members have played this game. It's on 1 wishlist.

About the Story

You're driving home during the night when your girlfriend Grace yawns in the passenger's seat and asks, "Paul, did you have fun at the party?" You start thinking about the party. "Did I have fun at the party?"

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Complex party game with good vibes and multiple endings, May 10, 2025
Related reviews: about 1 hour

Zeno Pillan has made several games in the past that were short, surreal parser games with cool ASCII art.

This game is much larger, with code at around 60K words. It's a party game; you're at a house with a ton of people in it and you can do things like watch youtube (where you physically enter into the videos), play a fighting game (with real attacks like special moves and stuff), talk to all the different friends, enter a world of books, etc.

The game also has four endings (and more if you read the code). Some endings are really easy to find, while the dance ending can take ton of work.

Overall, the atmosphere is wholesome and nostalgic, the ascii art is cool, and the different endings are a fun idea. The annotated code is fun to read in and of itself, with cool little doodles and such.

The only drawback I found was that the game seemed like it could use more time to get feedback from others and implement it, and to do some grammar and typo fixing. This isn't a 'the writing is bad' issue, the writing is fine, it's more stuff like capitalization errors and punctuation. One thing I like to do is run my text through a spellchecker like grammarly (although I usually ignore grammarly's more complicated suggestions). I know the author wrote this 60K (!) word game on his phone, so it might be harder there. Similarly, it can be hard to find beta testers. But if this had typos fixed and player feedback for bugs, I think this would be an amazing game. As it is, it's only a good, really fun game.

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Game Details

Language: English (en)
First Publication Date: May 1, 2025
Current Version: 7
License: Freeware
Development System: Inform 7
IFIDs:  A1CE2A28-1673-4217-89D8-B70C6B0E7871
909B946B-ECB6-453C-86FC-607878A56A9D
TUID: d77u4zqk9x80la1f

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