To Hell in a Hamper

One-room Steampunk Comedy ADRIFT End of Year Comp 2003 1st place InsideADRIFT Awards 2003 Best Game InsideADRIFT Awards 2003 Most unusual setting/plot InsideADRIFT Awards 2003 Best Small Game ADRIFT Spring Comp 2003 1st place XYZZY Awards 2003 Finalist - Best Game, Best Writing, Best Story, Best Setting, Best use of Medium

To Hell in a Hamper
Author(s)	Jason Guest
Publisher(s)	n/a
Release date(s)	Apr-2003
Authoring system	ADRIFT 4, TADS 2, Inform 7
Platform(s)	ADRIFT 4, TADS 2, Glulx
Language(s)	English
License(s)	TBD
Multimedia
Color effects	optional
Graphics	yes, cover art in all versions
Sound/Music	none
Ratings
Cruelty scale	Polite

How It Begins

Professor Pettibone, eminent Victorian balloonist, has a problem. He can't get it up. His balloon that is. If he can't reach an altitude of 20,000 feet, and soon, both he and his mysterious travelling companion Hubert Booby will be burned to a cinder by an erupting volcano! But what is Mr. Booby concealing under his overcoat?

Notable Features

• Instead of a score, you have a reading on the altimeter.

Trivia and Comments

• This is one of the ADRIFT Recommended Games put together in 2005 by the ADRIFT Forum.
• This game is mentioned in the prologue for Crimson Detritus (Mystery; 2003; ADRIFT 4).
• The cover art is presented a little differently in each version. In ADRIFT, the cover art appears in its own window and has the title and author's name in white in the bottom left corner of the basic balloon image. In TADS, the cover art is presented centered in main text window, and is the basic balloon image without text on top of it. The cover art on IFDB and IFWiki has the basic balloon image enclosed in a "Wild West" frame that contains the title and author's name text. (There's also imagined box art for the Acorn version.)

Versions

Competition Release

• To Hell in a Hamper (J. J. Guest; 13-Sep-2003; ADRIFT 4).
  • IFID: ADRIFT-400-D12D6FD3C8C65D448675EB7EC2F4E194
    IFID links: IFDB.
  • Beta testing by: Ambrosine and Liz Parnell.
  • ADRIFT Spring Comp 2003: 1st Place.
  • ADRIFT End Of Year Comp 2003: 1st Place.
  • InsideADRIFT Awards 2003: winner "Best Game", "Best Small Game" and "Most Original Plot/Setting".
  • Download ToHellInAHamper.zip from the IF Archive (contains game file and walkthrough).

Release 1 TADS Port

• To Hell in a Hamper (J. J. Guest; 17-Mar-2004; TADS 2).
  • IFID: TADS2-047E3CF57E2CB9C3F43CEE5D5C6BB558
    IFID links: IFDB.
  • Beta testing by: Dan Shiovitz, Phil Swinbank and Tommy Herbert.
  • Download hamper.gam from the IF Archive.

Acorn port

• To Hell in a Hamper (porter: Dave Edwards; 2006; BBC BASIC).
  • Originally ported to the Acorn Electron by Dave Edwards in 2006.
    • To Hell in a Hamper - review from EUG #67, an issue of the online magazine for Electron users, at the Acorn Electron User Group site.
    • To Hell in a Hamper released for Acorn machines - thread on the ADRIFT Forum, started December 27, 2006. Jason didn't know about this port at first, but he sounds supportive as long he can get a copy to play on his Electron emulator.
    • Game page on Acorn Electron World.
    • Solution for Electron version - at CASA, the Classic Adventures Solution Archive.
  • Later bugfixed and compressed for better performance, in 2019 and 2023.
    • Forum thread.
    • Play online or download for the BBC Micro.

Inform 7 port

• To Hell in a Hamper (J. J. Guest; 12-Apr-2017; Glulx).
  • Release 1 / Serial number 170412 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib 6/12N)
  • IFID: 13EA9076-0346-420E-AD30-92ADB57117AE
    IFID links: IFDB.
  • Beta testing by: Roody Yogurt, Hanon Ondricek, Peter Mattsson, and Chandler Groover. (request for beta testers)
  • Download To_Hell_in_a_Hamper-r1.gblorb from the IF Archive.

• To Hell in a Hamper (J. J. Guest; 17-Dec-2019; Glulx).
  • Release 2 / Serial number 191217 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib 6/12N)
  • IFID: 13EA9076-0346-420E-AD30-92ADB57117AE
    IFID links: IFDB.
  • Download To_Hell_in_a_Hamper-r2.gblorb from the IF Archive.

• To Hell in a Hamper (J. J. Guest; 07-Mar-2022; Glulx).
  • Release 4 / Serial number 220307 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib 6/12N)
  • IFID: 13EA9076-0346-420E-AD30-92ADB57117AE
    IFID links: IFDB.
  • Download To Hell in a Hamper.gblorb from the author's website. (Or play online there.)

• To Hell in a Hamper (J. J. Guest; 11-Sep-2023; Glulx).
  • Release 5 / Serial number 230911 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib 6/12N)
  • IFID: 13EA9076-0346-420E-AD30-92ADB57117AE
    IFID links: IFDB.
  • Download To_Hell_in_a_Hamper.gblorb from the IF Archive.

Links

• Old game page, at the author's website.
• To Hell in a Hamper (archived) - at Baf's Guide.
• To Hell in a Hamper - at IFDB.

Reviews

• Delron review compilation by various reviewers.
• Review - by Emily Short for IF-Review.
• Review - at SPAG, by J. Robinson Wheeler.

Spoilers

• ClubFloyd transcript.