Escape From Farset Labs

Escape From Farset Labs is a light-hearted short interactive fiction game created as an example for the Northern Ireland Developers Conference 2024. If you've never played a game like this before, the idea is that you type in commands to carry out actions. The aim is to figure out how to repair your bike so you can leave the labs and go home.

 If you want to play the game, click the Run Game button above.

 If you're completely new to text adventures, there is documentation and help available within the game.

This game is set at Farset Labs. Farset Labs are a Belfast-based open community of students, professionals, academics, freelancers, artists, hackers, and organizers that believe strongly in experimental learning and the Do-It-Yourself ethic. We facilitate technology initiatives and encourage hands-on learning by maintaining a workshop and creative space that is available to members. We maintain an inclusive membership policy, and strive to apply the principles of the open-software and open-hardware movements within our design policies. The name 'Farset' comes from the ancient river that Belfast is built on.

This game was created in Inform 7. The following resources were used to create it:

• The official Inform 7 website, which has a wealth of useful info and links (including the download links for the IDE itself).  
• The Inform 7 Handbook by Jim Aiken.
• The official Inform 7 examples page featuring games by Emily Short and others
• The Interactive Fiction Community's list of Inform resources.

 The source code for this game is available on Github.

The font used on this website is VT323, created by Peter Hull.

The cover image for this website is by Wobbly Python.

Links to my writing and social media can be found on my linktree.

Special thanks to my beta testers (Claire Burn and Laura Marriott) as well as viewtyjoe and aspeon for finding a nasty bug right after initial release.

Escape From Farset Labs has IFID D86AAF48-1CF7-4A77-A50F-B1E3740A07D9.