The Iron Guppy: A Text-Based Game

The Space Guppy	Inventory
You are aboard the space-going vessel The Iron Guppy. You lie awake in your bunk in the darkness. Loud noises have intruded on your dreams. Something is terribly wrong. Only a few faint sounds come through the thick metal door to your quarters. Your Quarters You are in complete darkness. You cannot see anything in your room. You can, however, feel the lightswitch on the wall.

A science fiction game played with hyperlinks

No need to login or anything, you're already playing! Just click on the links in the text to interact with the game.

Playing Tips

Here are some general play hints and tips:

Click on everything!
"Undo" is just your browser's Back button!
Ship regulations clearly state: "Any unexpected visitors on your ship are to be considered hostile. Crew members must arm themselves as well as possible before confronting hostiles."
You can interact with objects in your inventory by clicking on them. You won't have any inventory items at the beginning of the game. Try to find some!
You can bookmark the page at any time to save your current progress in the game. Then come back and finish it later.
Just click here to start over.

Dave's Text Game Script Engine

I built The Space Guppy with a game script language I created a while back. It looks somewhat C-like at first glance because it uses curly brackets ({ }), but you'll quickly see that it's tailored specifically for creating games and is quite easy to use.

Dave's PHP Text Game Engine Script Language Reference - see the full specifications for the game scripting language. It's really quite easy.

Dave's PHP Text-Based Game Engine - Want to make your own game or just interested in learning how it works? I have an explanation of the engine and you can download it for free. It's open-source!