Body Thief

This is a short proof-of-concept game that I built to test a couple of simple things:

• After you body-swap with a really stupid character, the text descriptions and your dialogue options get gradually simpler as you get dumber. Eventually, you forget your original identity.
• The Dynamic Clothing extension needed a test drive.

You can choose MTF (start as a male and become a braindead sexy bimbo) or FTM (start female and become a meathead jock). Either way, you gradually lose intelligence. If you hang around with the person you body-swapped with, they'll deliver some quips as they gain in intelligence. Try to get to your friend in time to swap out of your new stupid body before your brain drains completely away!

Planned for future release: quips for being in Jake/DeeDee body while not in motion; changing the run-away text for DeeDee/Jake; create obstacles along the path from the Curio Shop to the Triple Cross (on foot); fill in descriptions for those rooms; create variable descriptions for all items that can be examined; add wear/remove clickable links to items in inventory screen; random text encounters for men in the club; routine for making out with DeeDee/Jake (only when you lose the bus pass); drunk variation on nightclub conversation as well as the conversation in the shop.

Release 10, under construction:

• Fixed the bus dialogue so it only triggers when your companion is there. It was firing incorrectly.
• Combined the walking-around text with the drunken-walk text into a single routine so they do not fire simultaneously. This had the consequence of removing the DeeDee/Jake drunk text. I will probably move the routine back to its previous place (the "report going" rules) so both sets of the text show up as an alternative, not in addition, to the normal going rules.
• Added a hyperlink to exiting the area after DeeDee/Jake gloats and runs away.
• Fixed the talk-to hyperlink for DeeDee/Jake in the Banquet Room. It was incorrectly using the hyperlink to examine.

Known issues: the additional rooms accessible by bus (Atlas Street, Front Street Bus Stop, etc) have no content and no descriptions in them. It is possible to leave the Banquet Hall while naked and be unable to return to finish the game. The proprietor has no description and no clothing.

Release 9, version 0.45

• Conversation with DeeDee after entering the bus post-swap is mostly complete. You should be able to kiss DeeDee or flash your tits.
• DeeDee and Jake will now have a comment about buying a drink if you make it back to the bar with them. At present it only appears the first time you return, but I want this to be expanded.
• If you talk to Jake or Amanda after reaching INT<70, there should be a game-ending conversation node. I must test to see if this is working as intended.
• Multiple-window interface and working hyperlinks throughout are implemented.
• Going OUT while sitting on the bench on the Number 43 bus does not always make you attempt to exit the bus. I attempted a fix for this, which was not robust enough.
• A hyperlink has been added to the conversation with DeeDee/Jake that leads you out of the Curio Shop.
• A hyperlink for undressing has been added.
• After asking your swap partner about getting a drink, the conversation ends (no more conversation suggestions appear).
• Additional quips appear when you wander around the city in swapped condition. The purpose is to provide hyperlinks to help the player get (some of the way) back to the club. The player will not be given links all the way back to the club, as getting lost is an intended potential hazard; being told exactly what to do in each turn and being spoon-fed hyperlinks all the way to victory makes it too easy.
• Walking around the city after being swapped leads to random, location-contextual text that appears. These only appear when the player is in motion.
• When conversation is started with Ryan and Amanda, conversation suggestion now correctly appears.

Known issues: the additional rooms accessible by bus (Atlas Street, Front Street Bus Stop, etc) have no content and no descriptions in them. It is possible to leave the Banquet Hall while naked and be unable to return to finish the game.

Download:
Body Thief v9

Release 8, version 0.4

• It is now possible to order drinks while swapped. This command does not yet have a hyperlink but it is ORDER A DRINK (if you are alone) or BUY A DRINK FOR [person] (if you are with somebody).
• It is also now possible to drink too much. This is only possible after you have been swapped.
• A bug with Jake's clothing not fitting has been fixed.
• Also, a bug with Jake not being able to get out of the men's bathroom has also (I hope) been fixed.
• Some buggy text removed from examining DeeDee's ass.
• It is now possible to lose your bus fare (as Jake/DeeDee) if you have drunk too much.
• Some additional color text has been added, only in DeeDee's body, only when in motion. More is planned.

Known issues: the additional rooms accessible by bus (Atlas Street, Front Street Bus Stop, etc) have no content and no descriptions in them. It is possible to leave the Banquet Hall while naked and be unable to return to finish the game. Going "out" while sitting on the battered green bench in Number 43 will not exit the bus, only the seat (this is corrected for future release).

Download:
Body Thief v8

Release 7, version 0.35

• The range of player intelligence has been rescaled. Behind-the-scenes numbers: where before your INT began at 140, it now starts at 125. DeeDee/Jake has an INT of 60, and it was always possible to drain fully to that level if you simply wandered around doing nothing; but there was a threshold at which it was no longer possible to "win" (escape the body) because you forgot your old identity. Previously that threshold was 95; now it is 70. This means 1) the quips about decreasing intelligence appear sooner (at INT=121); and 2) the dialogue that kicked in at INT=80 and INT=70, which didn't kick in previously, will now do so.
• The player has 5 [correction: 10] additional moves before losing identity.
• Looking, examining, and taking inventory do not cost moves.

Known issues: the additional rooms accessible by bus (Atlas Street, Front Street Bus Stop, etc) have no content and no descriptions in them. It is possible to leave the Banquet Hall while naked and be unable to return to finish the game. Attempting to buy drinks while switched does nothing.

You will need an Inform 7 interpreter, such as Gargoyle for Windows or Spatterlight for MacOS.