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The Gostak cover

2001 · Carl Muckenhoupt · Puzzle · Adventure

The Gostak

A text adventure that is written almost entirely in gibberish. Players must puzzle out the general meaning of the game's text in order to progress.

Released
1 October 2001
Platforms
BrowserLinuxmacOSWindows
Genres
PuzzleAdventure
Developers
Carl Muckenhoupt
Publishers
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Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Text
Themes
Fantasy
Engine
Inform
›Story

Finally, here you are. At the delcot of tondam, where doshes deave. But the doshery lutt is crenned with glauds.

Glauds! How rorm it would be to pell back to the bewl and distunk them, distunk the whole delcot, let the drokes uncren them.

But you are the gostak. The gostak distims the doshes. And no glaud will vorl them from you.

Keywords

  • interactive fiction
  • developed by one person
  • text adventure
  • invented language

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

Releases by platform
PlatformReleasedRegions
macOS1 October 2001Worldwide
Browser1 October 2001Worldwide
Windows1 October 2001Worldwide
Linux1 October 2001Worldwide

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