Transylvania! Text-based Adventure Game

Transylvania! by Michael Fenton is licensed under CC BY NC ND 4.0
(Written 2009, updated 2012, 2020, 2025)

See    MikeFentonNZ.github.io     for more... 


Your cousin, a legal clerk, has been missing for 3 weeks. He was
last seen on his way to complete business at the castle of Count Morlock.

Two Private Investigators failed to return attempting to find him.

A local farmer will take you only as far as the church at the edge of the
Count Morlock estate. You hope the full moon will make the way easier.

Inspired by the Apple II game 'Transylvania', a text-based adventure game published by Penguin Software in 1982.


Keyboard:
<ESC>	ends the programme OR closes this window	
<F1> 	shows the help file		
<F4>  	toggle full screen mode using scaling. Images may be lose some quality.
<F5> 	save game
<F6> 	load game
<F8>	clear high score
<F9>	save a screenshot


Movement commands: short (single letter)  or verbose (whole word)			
eg,  n  OR  north  OR  go north		
eg,  u  OR  up

Interact commands (examples)
talk OR get OR open  OR shoot  OR show  OR give    some item you have
eg, talk to man  OR  get lantern OR give money

Help commands
i  OR  inventory  [shows items you have that you can use]				
look  OR  search  OR  help
commands 	[show words understood by the command line]
repeat		[do same action as last command]
cheat 		[show cheat commands]
music off 	[turn background music OFF]
music on 	[turn background music ON]
change music  [OR cm play a different background music track]
volume up 	[OR vu increase volume]
volume down 	[OR vd decrease volume]

Restart
Quit


Copyright
All images and MP3 musical tracks are original and are copyright Michael Fenton.
Made using Game Maker 5, updated to Game Maker 6 (Mark Overmars). 
MIDI music files are believed to be public domain but remain copyright of their creators.
If implemented, music volume control code by IsmAvatar.

License
This game has been made for educational demonstration purposes and is intended for non-commercial uses only.

This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Attribution - Users must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. They may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests that you endorse them or their use.

Non-Commercial - Users may not use the material for commercial purposes.

No Derivatives - If users remix, transform, or build upon the material, they may not distribute the modified material.

No additional restrictions - Users may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
