The Egg and the Newbie

This parser game was meant as Episode 1 of a longer story, but this is the only entry listed on IFDB. The author had several later games that I played and enjoyed, though.

It starts with a big setup of backstory. The author paints his vision of a utopia, where highly educated people don't have kids, the Rothschilds have been rejected in favor of a bank run by Tesla (not the Elon Musk company, but the original Tesla) who has a corporation that employs 80% of Americans and supplies free power. There is teleportation and probability/parallel world adjustments, including rival worlds. This is an alternate world different than most others I had read of, and reminds me of Atlas Shrugged a bit.

The idea of the gameplay is that you are a chicken farmer. You harvest eggs, teleport them back to base for money, then buy new chickens, new food, new water, and new chickenwire. The latter is needed because ghost foxes randomly rip into your fences and eat chickens. The game ends when you make $1000.

I played around for a while, but was unable to find the key that lets you unlock the room that has a basket and the money maker, so I ended up reading a winning transcript.

Overall, it's an interesting idea and very unusual. I didn't feel deeply compelled by the mechanics and story, but if the storyline had been continued it would have been interesting.