Gnome Ranger

Gnome Ranger is a text adventure game by Level 9 released in 1987.[1] It was followed by a sequel titled Ingrid's Back.[1]

Gnome Ranger
Developer(s)Level 9 Computing
Publisher(s)Level 9
Platform(s)Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Apple Macintosh, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, BBC Micro, MSX, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum
Release1987
Genre(s)Interactive fiction
Mode(s)Single-player

Plot

The gnome Ingrid Bottomlow has displeased her family by her un-gnomelike behaviour, such as going off to university and getting an education. She has been teleported from her village by a faulty scroll, and must find her way back..

Gameplay

The game is a standard text adventure with limited graphics on some platforms. It comes with a short novella by Peter McBride ("The Gnettlefield Journal") explaining Ingrid's predicament and setting the background to the story. Gameplay is similar to the earlier Level 9 adventure Knight Orc, which uses the same game engine (KAOS). The player must explore the settings while collecting useful items and interacting with various non-player characters to solve puzzles and problems.

The game takes place in three areas, each characterized by the non-player characters Ingrid will meet. The first contains characters of an animal nature, the second of a vegetable nature, and the third of a mineral nature.

Reception
gollark: Well, not to ignore, to just say "this is fine".
gollark: Which is just not a particularly sensible belief system, or one which you can actually seriously follow for serious lengths of time.
gollark: Okay, I'm here.Basically, I consider stoicism stupid because it's saying "everything is fine, let's just ignore it and hope it goes away".
gollark: Will explain when not on phone.
gollark: <@330678593904443393> Stoicism is stupid.

References
  1. "Gnome Ranger". mobygames.com. Retrieved 2009-08-27.


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