Synopsis
this is a nightmare more than a game, for you, not really the story
How many rooms will you go through before you will want to curse me?
Have fun? Or Enjoy Hell? I guess...
About...
the 500 rooms game is a maze-like parser made for the Really Bad IF jam, where the goal is to make the worse IF game possible. My entry aims to frustrate the player with a stupid maze.
The mechanic behind this "game" is extremely simple: the player needs to find the correct direction to move to the next room, and repeat until the maze is cleared. As you do so, two concurrent "stories" seem to happen at the same time. But there is really nothing else you can do save from getting to the exit.
Before making this "game", I had tried to make something with Inform7, but found its coding language more difficult than other engines. Its natural form felt pretty illogical (and still feels so - I'm more comfortable with binaries). Since the goal with this game was to make the worst game possible, I didn't have to worry about making mistakes: if players ran into bugs, I could brush it off as intentional.