About Game

"HOT GARBAGE: A Keysmash Story" is an interactive fiction game comic thing, and #4 in the Keysmash series. You are ESTHER COTTONTAIL, student at the Storm Coast College of Art and Delima's (from the previous Keysmashes) roommate. Your Color Theory teacher has taken you on a "community outreach" field trip to the Storm Coast Aqueduct, a polluted and trickling waterway whose condition has worsened recently due to local wildfires. You and your classmates are tasked with cleaning the area of its plentiful garbage. Discover trashy treasures, solve mysteries, and explore the aqueduct in a funny interactive Keysmash story. HOT GARBAGE was programmed using Inky, a great interactive fiction program that uses CSS and JavaScript. To make up for my inability to implement sound and background music, and also because this is a Keysmash property, I made a HOT GARBAGE playlist for you below. Put that on in another tab if you'd like, and/or listen to the album "Skelethon" by Aesop Rock. Let me know if you run into any bugs! Thank you so much for playing! You can find the other Keysmashes on my itch and/or Gumroad for pay-what-you-can! Big thanks to my friend Lillie for HTML and JavaScript help!