Hmm interesting, but remember that on OS 2.53MP or higher inverted screen sometimes doesn't work well. You'll have to test the game in both 2.43 and 2.55 to make sure. I haven't tried, though, so maybe you might be fine.

By the way are you planning to make some games with tilemaps and such (even if ASCII)? They might actually attract more attention among users here, since text-only games are very common on ticalc.org compared to ones with graphics. Of course you could maybe just add some ASCII graphics at the bottom of the screen to form some small images representing where you are, approximately, or items you found.

Also it's possible to make the text appear instantly I think, by disabling some flags in Axe (with the Fix command). However I don't know if it works well and you must re-enable them on exit.

Ok good. In 2.55MP the problem is sometimes random, usually when switching from the graph screen to home screen:

Well, judging from the screenie, you only made it halfway through. I'd love to see what you think of the rest of the game, especially seeing as how you haven't reached any of the special effects yet.

Word wrapping is easy if you have a character size table (as in the size of each letter in the font).  You just display each character one at a time, and measure the width of the string between your pointer and the next space.  If it is greater than the remaining available distance, wrap to the next line and display the word there.
EDIT: There were another 15 or so posts I neglected to read, weren't there?

Nah, cause in inverse text mode the boarder of the character is on the left, so you have to use the entire row, otherwise you get an ugly white line where you stopped.
Edit in response to edit: Seams like it.

Seems*

Regarding word wrapping I think there are subroutines for that in the subroutines topic.

Y'all seem to be slightly confused about where this program takes place:
Asylum operates on the homescreen.

I thought it was graph screen, we have greyscale, arrows and menus.

Actually, the cursors are supposed to blink instead of greying out. It's a bug Wabbit missed. Also, if it was on the graphscreen, the whole screen would be black, but on the homescreen the rightmost column is left white.
PS: Scout, have you reached the end yet?

I haven't tried it again since I haven't had an opportunity to go to Windows.