IROPS: An Airline Typing Adventure

Answer the phones as a 1971 airline reservations agent, and book every trip by typing commands into PARSEC, a cryptic green-screen computer.

March 8, 1971. Sagebrush Airlines Reservations, Tucson. It’s your first day. The customer is waiting on line 1, and the computer is cryptic.

IROPS is an airline typing adventure in 16-color EGA pixel art, in the spirit of the old Sierra games. Find out what passengers need and book it in PARSEC, the airline’s reservation computer. 

This demo is Chapter One: The Res Room. Three shifts on the phones, from your first morning at work to a monsoon afternoon when the weather cancels flights and scrambles everyone’s plans.

• Sell seats, change plans, and build every reservation by hand.
• Learn the PARSEC commands from veteran agent Dottie Kowalski.
• Find out what each caller really needs, and go the extra mile when you can.

IROPS follows one agent’s whole career. Chapter One is free to play here. Follow IROPS on itch.io to hear when Chapter Two is ready.

Keyboard required (the clackier the better!). IROPS does not work on phones or tablets.

How to play

• TAB switches between the caller and the PARSEC terminal.
• HE in the terminal lists every command you’ve learned. HE A explains one.
• HINT at the counter, when you’re stuck.
• F1 help, F2 the conversation log, F3 shows the shift’s memo again.
• ESC and F4 open the game menu: save, restore, restart, sound.

Saves

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Thanks for playing!

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