Guttersnipe: St. Hesper's Asylum for the Criminally Mischievous by bitterkarella

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The year is 1929. You are Lil' Ragamuffin, the roughest toughest urchin in all of Garbagetown DC and the surrounding wastes of Montgomery County, but somehow the constabulary has managed to capture you and commit you to the city's highest security asylum. You don't aim to stay long.

Guttersnipe: St. Hesper's Asylum for the Criminally Mischievous is a humorously grotesque (or grotesquely humorous) game about a street urchin and her pet sewer rat escaping a sanitarium full of tinctures, brines, and other misbegotten 1920s health remedies.

Special thanks to play testers Davy B, Sarah Adams, Jake Strick, Capslock, Norman Rafferty, and Steph Cherrywell! And to Davy B for additional coding and problem solving!

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Comment bitterkarella

13 Aug 2018

@archerqueen08: Whoops, good catch! It looks like there was an issue with the panes because of some update with the latest version of Quest! Thanks to Davy B, the problem should be corrected and the games has been updated with a newer, fixed version. Thanks for playing!

Comment archerqueen08

12 Aug 2018

For some reason when I try to save it says "Error running script: Failed to save field 'map.script' with value 'Script: if (game.in_puzzle) { report_error ("You cannot change the map while working on a puzzle.") }' - Function not found: 'report_error'"?

Comment hedgehog1972

23 May 2018

another fun game. Thank you!

Review phantom

13 May 2018

Your Guttersnipe games have so much character! Like the first one, this was a delight to play :) Your writing does a really good job of steering the player in the right direction while not hitting them over the head with super-obvious hints. In addition, there were also lots of extra responses that made the game feel more rich. (such as "give percy to cat" and all the different responses when I tried to use the pocket-watch on people)

Review DavyB

22 Apr 2018

It is a privilege to be the first person to review this the second of the Guttersnipe series. It is actually the third one I've played and up to the very high standard of the other two that were submitted to Spring Thing 2017 and 2018 respectively. I found this game the most straightforward so far. That is possibly connected with it being more linear but getting used to Bitterkarella's style must also be a factor.

Like the other two, the humour and writing are excellent so full stars again.

Comment bitterkarella

18 Dec 2017

@marroyo14: You won't need the milk until after you've gotten past the cat. You'll want to first grab the roast chicken from the ice box in the staff break room, then use it with the electroconvulsive therapy machine. Give the ambulatory chicken carcass to the cat and it will open up the rest of the playing board for you.

Percy should respond if you ask him about most objects that are currently in the room with you.

Thanks for playing!

Comment marroyo14

18 Dec 2017

I’m really enjoying the game but I’m stuck.

... spoilers below...

I’ve got the milk, but I can’t seem to do anything with it. Thought it was for the cats but can’t find any action to give it to them. Also, can’t get Percy to give any hints. Only things he will tell me about is himself and me.