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Thanks for the feedback. I can only say that it's hard to please everybody.

1) I didn't even know that you could LOOK INSIDE something. As the rules state two-word input, I didn't really expect anybody to try that. Now that I know it's possible, I'll have to work out how to handle it. (Chris? Are you out there?) Remember that containers aren't currently supported.

2) Maze? Are you sure you're talking about the same game? It's anything but. No room descriptions are the same. No headers are the same. No illustrations are the same. There are no one-way exits and no bendy exits.

3) This is one of the problems with illustrated adventures. When you add objects in the illustrations, you have to account for them in the descriptions, otherwise you get criticised, like I was for the decorative candle in the master bed chamber. I loath adventures that provide long verbose descriptions like they're written for a novel. Every time you enter a room or refresh the room description, you have to wade through half a screen of text, but you can't examine or interact with anything. I much prefer the "drill-down" approach, where you gradually expose new information. It is more satisfying for a user to feel like you're exploring and gradually making progress with each new discovery. However, I do confess that there are far too many red herrings, especially scenery. Sorry about that. That's because I Googled house plans for Victorian style houses and essentially designed the house layout before the puzzles. And it's no fun having lots of empty rooms. There's actually not much to do upstairs, but there is one essential item and lots of funny responses. Hopefully, that adds to the enjoyment. Incidentally, the 5-item limit is somewhat arbitrary, but it prevents our 14-year old young girl from carrying around a truck-load of items and forces her to make at least two trips to the basement. I think they're reasonable requirements that add to the realism. When Adventuron adds containers, I'll allow Susan to put things in her backpack.

When I somehow tried to handle the Rucksack as a container I got the reply that I rather should look inside. Did I try to open it? Mmmh. You may try LOOK INSIDE BACKPACK for yourself and then see the result. Not sure though what triggered the first reply of the system that I rather should look inside the backpack. Anyway, if it is not added by you, then this is a system reply and you should get in touch with Chris to take care of that. Maybe it is documented somewhere, in the obj. ref?

Regarding the maze-feeling. I know that it was not actually a maze, I'm just expressing how it felt when you were wandering through the same-looking, different coloured transition rooms of the game.

Yes, having a 5 item limit may be realistic. I was more after logic with my hint. We all can can't barely carry more items with our hands than 5 or maybe six until it starts looking like a circus performance. But we can carry a lot more items with a backpack. So the player will think: hey what's up... just 5 items? I'm wearing a backpack! So you either should take the limit out or allow to carry more if the player is wearing the backpack. That would be a way to work around the issue that Adventuron doesn't support containers yet. BTW. you could try to replicate DAAD's logic of containers in code, where a container is just an inaccessible location. It uses then the LISTAT condcat to read the contents of the inaccessible location as container inventory. 

Game rules are two-word input. I considered DIY containers in 'Seeker of Magic', but it wasn't possible with two-word input. You really need to be able to say PUT WING IN BACKPACK. You can't imply the container in situations where you have multiple containers in the same room. For example, if you've got an open backpack and an open fridge in the kitchen and you say PUT WING, where do you put it?

Like I said, you could just make more objects carriable when the backpack is present or just leave it out. It’s about the logic, not the technique behind it. Also, the game encouraged me to look inside the backpack and then I got a reply that it’s not a container, assuming these are system messages, that’s on Chris todo not on yours