His Majesty's Royal Space Navy Service Handbook

A text adventure of paperwork, office politics, and sci-fi space battles.

It's Friday night and Sheryl hasn't yet left the office. That isn't unusual; she's a dedicated service member of His Majesty Smurg IV, the Decisive's Royal Space Navy, and she spends far more time at the office than her tiny apartment. Just as she is packing her bag, however, the phone at her desk rings, she answers, and discovers her boss on the line. He has a special assignment that only Sheryl Swift, Sub-Lieutenant of the Human Resources Command, can accomplish.

• You can play the game online in the window above (desktop only), or download the "gblorb" game file and play in an interactive fiction interpreter. You can find a list of popular interpreters at https://www.ifwiki.org/Glulx_interpreters.
• You can also download the Frotz app for your Apple device and pull in the game via ifdb.org. (There's probably an Android app that does the same, but I'm just not familiar with the platform.)

SeedComp Voters declare:

Rosebush Magazine:

⭐ A "perversely empowering" approach to game verbs.

Players are saying:

⭐ "off-beat and funny (and sometimes really full of emotion and pathos)"

⭐ "reminded me of the style of better games of the early 2000’s when Ingold/Short/Cadre/Plotkin were all especially active"

⭐ "Sheryl is a beautifully drawn character. I will remember her for the next XYZZY Awards."

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A parser text adventure written in Inform 7 and made for the 2023 SeedComp game jam. The seed that inspired this game was created by Pinkunz. The estimated completion time for this game is about one hour.