Caduceus

Prize-winning entry in the Second Quadrennial Ryan Veeder Exposition for Good Interactive Fiction. The challenge of this event was to create a game in Inform 7 with beautiful source code text. Click "Source Text" to view the  game code poem, and then click "Play In-Browser" to launch the resulting game if you wish.

Caduceus' code is written in the style of a rhyming poem. The game it compiles into is limited but playable, and technically also winnable—though it helps to read the code first.

Cover image by WikiPedant is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.