# MORPQUEST: Record Store Day

A Sierra-AGI-style graphical adventure for the [MRPGI engine](https://monsterrobot.games/engine/manual.html),
adapted from the **Beyond Morp** text adventure. Fourteen EGA screens, one day,
five words, one white label.

> Record Store Day. You're meant to be doing a quick cat-food run; Uncle's list
> is in the glovebox, and the cat can smell weakness. Something is wrong at the
> shop today. Morp itself can feel it.

![all fourteen rooms](art/render_contact.png)

## Play it

From the MRPGI repo:

```sh
cargo run -p mrpgi --release -- --game /path/to/morpquest        # the GUI
mrpgi-headless --game /path/to/morpquest                          # JSONL repl
mrpgi-headless --serve 127.0.0.1:7777 --game /path/to/morpquest   # HTTP + frame.png
```

Arrows (or click) walk. Verbs: `look take use talk drop inventory help`, plus
`climb wipe play pay post give fix …` — the parser is generous. The BeckyWall
will not move for you. Documents move it. There is a true ending; the walls of
the toilet know the shape of it.

## What's here

- `game.json`, `rooms/room0..13.json` — the whole game: art stamps, walkability,
  objects, flags, dialogue. Hand-authored, engine-validated, fully winnable
  (see `tools/playtest.jsonl` — the scripted golden path — and
  `tools/gatetest.jsonl` — proof the locks lock).
- `sprites/` — 14 backgrounds + 6 NPCs generated with nano banana
  (`google/gemini-3.1-flash-image` via OpenRouter), squeezed to the engine's
  160×168 double-wide-pixel frame and EGA-quantized by the engine on load;
  tiny item sprites are hand-placed pixels (`tools/gen_items.py`).
- `tools/gen_art.py` + `tools/art_manifest.py` — the whole art pipeline,
  re-runnable (deletes nothing, regenerates only what's missing; `-f` forces).
- `art/raw/` — original generations, kept for archaeology.
- `DESIGN.md` — the map, the flag chains, the voice rules.

## Provenance

Story, puzzles, characters, and most of the best lines are adapted from the
Beyond Morp design corpus (RSD storyline). The tone bible rule that matters:
Morp is not cruel; Morp is accurate.