The only play tester it has had so far has accurately described it as frustrating, annoying and excessively difficult. The word confusing may have been in there as well. Play at your own risk.
The game is set in the world of Paranoia, based on the tabletop RPG from the mid 80's. This is a post apocalyptic world where the only known human survivors inhabit the underground city called Alpha Complex. Alpha Complex is run by Friend Computer. Unfortunately after the cataclysmic event that caused most of humanity to be wiped out the Computer got damaged. It searched its data banks for a possible cause and came up with the explanation that it was the Commies responsible. Since then it has been on a mission to root out and destroy all Commies and any other traitor. Other traitors include mutants, secret society members or just people with too much knowledge. Nearly everyone in Alpha Complex is a mutant or member of a secret society...
High programmers (or ultra-violets) have been messing with the Computers programming for centuries in order to further their own aims. This has lead to the Computer being dangerously eccentric and paranoid. Saying so is of course treason and punishable by summary execution. Luckily however all people live in clone families with 8 clones per family.
Progression in society is based on a simple colour scheme:-
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Indigo
Violet
Ultra-violet
Red are the lowest of the low. Service to Friend Computer may see you promoted. Or executed for some imagined treason. Imagine HAL programmed by Monty Python in a movie directed by Rob Zombie.
You play a red level troubleshooter - someone employed to shoot trouble. Literally. Unfortunately you are one of the many traitors the Computer is seeking to eradicate. You will of course need to keep this secret in order to survive.
The game understands the usual Verb / Noun / Noun / Adverb type of arrangement. Word order doesn't really matter. Extra words are ignored. You can shorten a lot of the words to the first three letters.
There are two versions of the game in the image - one that expects to be able to save progress as it goes (independently of the user triggered save facility) and one that does not and could be run read-only from a web site etc.
You can save multiple games by giving them different names, e.g. SAVE ONE, SAVE TWO etc. followed by LOAD ONE or LOAD TWO. You do not need to include the prefix of S. for the save folder (SAVE ONE will create the file S.ONE). If you just type SAVE it will save in a default save slot and just typing LOAD will load it.
If running in an emulator switch off disc access sounds. It will run a lot faster (all messages are loaded on the fly and this includes room descriptions). On a real beeb I suggest using an SD card or similar to avoid destroying your floppy disc!
A walk-through is available...
And remember you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
