This is an Inform 7 illustrated text adventure (of the old GET YE FLASK sort) about Star Anise's intrepid escape from the Chamber of Despair.
You can play it online at itch.io or my self-hosted copy. They should be identical; I just like to host web stuff myself as well when possible. You can also install and play it via the itch app.
WARNING: THIS IS A NARRATIVE PUZZLE GAME. THIS REPOSITORY CONTAINS THE FULL SOURCE CODE AND ALL ILLUSTRATIONS. EVEN CASUALLY BROWSING THESE FILES WILL VERY LIKELY SPOIL THE GAME. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK.
It's in Star Anise Chronicles: Escape from the Chamber of Despair.inform/Source/story.ni. What a mouthful!
Illustrations are in Star Anise Chronicles: Escape from the Chamber of Despair.materials/Figures/.
I suspect, in retrospect, that the colons might cause problems on non-Linux systems, but at the time I didn't intend to release the source code.
Some extensions are used, but I believe they're all included standard with Inform 7.
There's a Linux Makefile. You'll need to have Inform 7 installed, and you may need to edit Makefile (or just provide INFORM7_BIN) to point to wherever it is for you. Hey, it works on my machine™!
Then you can simply run
make
to build a GLULX (without images), or
make gblorb
to build a GBLORB with images bundled.
Or you could just open the damn thing in Inform 7 and build it there. Why are you building this anyway?
Worth note: the actual released copy is not what you get from a simple Inform 7 build (which I believe fails to include the images correctly); I only build the gblorb, then drop that into a folder of web assets that I put together myself (in /publish/). It's far easier than making an Inform 7 template, and it lets me use a more recent version of the Quixe interpreter.