Strewth

Strewth is a retro DOS game made with retro DOS tooling. Using the latest and greatest EGA text-mode graphics, we will take you to the world of classical murder mysteries. There's been a party, and someone's been killed. Talk to suspects, explore the large manor, and work out who did the murder, and with what item.

Strewth is inspired by an older DOS game from 1983, "Sleuth" by Eric N. Miller. It started out as a throwaway joke idea - what if "Sleuth", but localised with a more Aussie twang to the dialogue? It quickly became a rabbit-hole of retro-coding nostalgia for me using MS QuickBasic. I hope you enjoy it.

It was officially completed as part of the DOS Games July 2024 Jam : https://itch.io/jam/dos-games-july-2024-jam/entries

# THANKS

- Emmxyzzy and the Shit Game Club for motivation

- Sonneveld for helping to fix compiler problems

- Denzquix made a cool program that I drew many screens in: https://duncanc.github.io/dosdraw/

- Wobin for last-minute bug-finding!

# CHANGELOG

## 1.0.18
- Bugfix: After the refactoring, killer would sometimes choose themselves (or the victim, I think!) as their alibi

## 1.0.17
- Big bugfix / polish release.
- Add pretty final end screens.
- Bugfix: Reset inventory on new game.
- Bugfix: Clear Message Log on new game.
- Bugfix: Prompt before abandoning game.
- Suspect names are now loaded from disk and can be customised more easily.
- Add Boss Key (F12)
- Bugfix: If the 8th suspect is chosen as the killer, the game is unwinnable.
- Save player name between sessions.
- More bleeps and bloops.
- Add Cat.
- Revamp how dialogue is stored / parsed.
- Items can now be found inside containers when [E]xamining them.
- Lots of code refactoring to avoid really fucking frustrating memory limitations in the compiler.
- Some extra items.

 
## 0.9.0
- The original release for the DOS Games Jule 2024 Jam.
- Find the murder weapon and determine who is the murderer with the inconsistent alibi.