#TextAdventures
Was just stunned by a #SpringThing #interactiveFiction game. I was so gobsmacked that the review I then wrote could only start with "Wow. I’m not quite sure what to say about this." https://intfiction.org/t/viv-dunstan-s-2023-spring-thing-autumnal-jumble-impressions/61524/38 #indieGames #textAdventures #gameDev #creativeWriting #parserGames
:abunhdowohop: ’ello! I’m Anjune. I’ve been here since 2017. Here’s a bullet-pointy #introduction, spring 2023 edition:
Timidly trying my hand at some atmospheric #electroindustrial with #Renoise among other neat tools and toys
· #Prose-#poetry perpetrator, albeit rarely
· Compulsive #language pedant who should know better
· Escaping into fantasy, faerie, SciFi and RPG lore & art
· Learned English from pen friends, #TextAdventures & #InteractiveFiction, song lyrics, the #DemoScene, & the internet. Accordingly old and decrepit!
· Things I currently want to learn but struggle to make myself: music theory, baking, embroidery, audio production, balcony gardening, LÖVE2D and/or libtcod
· Part-time-vegan vegetarian
· A #SocialLibertarian? Not too chummy with ideologies, and never ever sure I’m right
· At best #homoflexible & #demisexual; #pancuddly; favouring #polyamory & romantic #PowerExchange… but really, I’d just like some hugs again sometime
New post on RetroDon
Adventure in Time and Space
The game starts in the laboratory and we are already introduced to the professor's time machine, although we can't get in it yet. Have a good look around and examine everything here, but it soon becomes fairly obvious we need to leave here and go look outside.
#commodore64 #TextAdventures #RetroGaming
Read the full post here: https://retrodon.net/adventure-in-time-and-space/
If you're a creator, player, archivist or fan of #interactivefiction we welcome you to join the discussion at intfiction.org!
#if #textadventures #inform7 #twine #parser #CYOA #xyzzy #adventuregame #infocom #zork
Der diesjährige deutsche IF-Grand-Prix bietet vier neue Spiele: https://if-forum.org/pub/ifGP/2023/ Wer abstimmen möchte, kann dies bis Ende des Monats tun. Viel Spaß!
Well, this kept me thinking for a while: Infocom #textAdventures don't know the word "use" (at least, Planetfall and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy don't, for sure).
Yup! Being skillful in that kind of games actually requires you to fully specify how to use things on things or people.
In a way, LucasArts (and their "relatives") dumbed us down a bit
April 1 is IF #SourceCode Amnesty Day. I plan to join in on this, sharing my #Inform7 source code for my Scottish historical #parser #InteractiveFiction #games Border Reivers and Napier's Cache. http://blog.zarfhome.com/2023/03/april-1-is-if-source-code-amnesty-day.html #OpenSource #ScottishHistory #HistoricalGames #TextAdventures #GameDev #Inform #Coding #Programming #ComputerGames
@BeTheCookie @nuncio This looks like it came from a Legend of the Green Dragon instance; HAHA! #TextGames #TextAdventures #DoorsGames
La aventura conversacional de Stefan Vogt "The Curse of Rabenstein", a partir de ahora disponible también en castellano. #ZXSpectrum #CPC #ZXNext #C64 #MSX #16Bits #TextAdventures #Homebrew #videogames
https://8bitgames.itch.io/rabenstein/devlog/491616/rabenstein-now-available-in-spanish-language
Más de 25 aventuras conversacionales, realizadas en Eslovaquia para el ZX Spectrum, traducidas al inglés. #ZXSpectrum #TextAdventures #Conversacionales
Disponibles en Spectrum Computing: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/list?label_id=20287
Fuente de la noticia, el blog Planeta Sinclair: https://planetasinclair.blogspot.com/2023/02/mais-de-20-aventura-de-texto-traduzidas.html
#Blind friends. I'm looking for phone #TextAdventures to play. Any recs? I've lost touch of what's available. I know there's the choice of games and Timecrest...
I've just asked ChatGPT to create a text adventure in COBOL. It's doing it. 😁
#ChatGPT #coding #programming #COBOL #TextAdventures
Fired up the Commodore 64 this afternoon, for the first time in ages, to start playing through the first of what seems like a million text adventures.
I wasn’t quite prepared for the story that unfolded!
I’ll be posting the full review soon over on my blog.
After dying many times, I managed to succeed in this WWII inspired escape adventure… the HINT system is your friend if you’re stuck! #InteractiveFiction #WW2 #TextAdventures https://play.adrift.co/?game=http%3a%2f%2fwww.adrift.co%2ffiles%2fgames%2fWWII+Elevator+Escape+R1.blorb
:abunhdowohop: ’ello! I’m Anjune. I’ve been here since 2017. Here’s a bullet-pointy #introduction, 2023 edition:
· Timidly trying my hand at some atmospheric #darkelectro slash #electroindustrial with #Renoise among other neat tools and toys
· #Prose-#poetry perpetrator, albeit rarely
· Much-feared amateur #language pedant
· Into #fantasy, #faerie, #SciFi and #RPG lore & art
· Learned English from pen friends, #TextAdventures & #InteractiveFiction, song lyrics, the #DemoScene, & the internet. Accordingly old and decrepit!
· Things I currently want to learn but struggle to make myself: music theory, baking, embroidery, audio production
· Part-time vegan, vegetarian otherwise
· A #SocialLibertarian? Not too chummy with ideologies and never ever sure I’m right
· At best #homoflexible & #demisexual; totes pancuddly, though. Favouring #polyamory #enm & romantic #PowerExchange
Trip down memory lane with Infocom
#Infocom #InteractiveFiction #AdventureGames #TextAdventures #RetroComputers
Musing an early in-development #Inform7 #InteractiveFiction game. Brainstorming some ideas to move the plot on in #Twine. Which I haven’t used much, certainly not for any long-term Twine piece of interactive fiction. But I do like to brainstorm in it some times.
#GameDesign #ParserGames #TextAdventures #Brainstorming #CreativeWriting
@ptcurley Wasn't Legend of the Green Dragon originally a Doors game? I play on a webified instance of that. #DoorsGames #TextAdventures #BBS
You're in luck! I've just rediscovered my mid-2010s image edit stash!
Here is Grue-the-cat's name origin story in the form of a quote from Infocom's text adventure Zork.
#Grue #caturday #AdventureGames #TextAdventures #Infocom #Zork #InteractiveFiction
@itsa_mammal @savetz @Carrington It's a nice app and a particularly good one for traveling. Download a bunch of #interactivefiction #textadventures before taking a flight. Hours of offline fun.
My 11yo expressed interest in #TextAdventures/#InteractiveFiction. I wrote stuff in #Inform years ago but I don’t think that would be his jam (and as beautiful as #Inform7 is I don’t think he’d be able to learn it quickly enough to avoid losing interest).
Does anyone know of good tutorials for #Twine that might be accessible to a bright 11 year old? I’d be happy to help him but I’d love to have something he could also read himself while I’m at work. Thank you!
Here are some text based games that I've developed in the past
Expedition Series
https://gamejolt.com/games/expedition/29846
https://gamejolt.com/games/expedition-part-2-laboratory/30005
Sleepy Time Series
https://gamejolt.com/games/sleepy-time/106835
https://gamejolt.com/games/escape-sleepy-time/208058
Apocalyp
https://gamejolt.com/games/apocalyp/287528
dotVirus
https://gamejolt.com/games/dotvirus-batch-file-roguelike/15795
Prompted by some reading tonight I thought of a new #InteractiveFiction game idea I could develop. Or at least I thought it was new to me. Digging through my #Inform7 source code directory I find I’ve tentatively started something similar in the past, but hadn’t extended it further. Now feeling inspired to push on! It’s a nice thing to work on idly, as change from the fuller games I’m developing. Though it may be a little lightweight for many fans of #ParserGames and traditional #TextAdventures.
Scott Adams adventures were really cool, and can be found here:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/list?label_id=13041
#zxspectrum #textadventures #retrogaming
Quick bit of #InteractiveFiction game coding before bed (finally awake enough #neuro for a brief burst!), including adding some more ASK X ABOUT Y responses in my Inform code. I have a list of things to finish off in a game that would be nice to enter in #IFComp next year. If I can just get it all finished. Health permitting. The game’s core through story has been coded, but I have a lot to fill in re furnishings/objects in rooms, dialogue responses etc. #TextAdventures #ComputerGames #Inform7
It’s been eight years since I last touched this, and now I got that light-in-IF bug again. Will I ever understand my own fumbling and speculations and notes?
#InteractiveFiction #TextAdventures
Edit: How is it that I still can’t get vim to soft-wrap at word boundaries?
Je viens d'écrire un article sur @ifiction pour vous lancer avec Calico, le template alternatif pour ink créé par @elliotherriman
J'y présente Calico et ses plugins, le tout agrémenté de nombreuses démos.
http://www.fiction-interactive.fr/dopez-votre-fiction-ink-avec-calico/
Interactive Fiction - I've played/read the winner of this competition and it was quick and lovely. A nice variety of story topics as well from Sci Fi through to The Thirty Nine Steps.
At the moment I'm working my way through A Long Way to the Nearest Star which uses one of my favourite Sci Fi tropes - the sarcastic, possibly murderous, space ship AI.
Oh, and further to my recent toot...
I have just finished Hibernated by Stefan Vogt on my Commodore PET. An absolute triumph of a game that drops a few narrative bombshells on you as you progress.
Also, that particular description (pictured) hit me as I was listening to this new track by Fvnerals...
youtu.be/ASDitNErd-Q
So, the recent video about text adventures and Magnetic Scrolls by @Kim_Justice really got me intrigued to try out Corruption on Amiga. I'm already impressed by the windowed presentation.
So. What are some text games with a plural first person narrator ("we")? Counterfeit Monkey is the only one I can think of.
@JudithPintar @janice_e_
I would say Enchanter, A Mind Forever Voyaging, and Deadline. Hard to pick 3.
Sorry so late to the party! #infocom #infocomgames #textadventures #adventuregames
If you're a fan/educator/creator/archivist of #IF, #interactivefiction, #textadventures, #choicenarrative, and similar narrative games, we'd love to have you join us at the Interactive Fiction Community Forum.
#ifcomp #iftf #inform #infocom #twine #ifdb #ifarchive #ifwiki #xyzzy
For another view of the ECTOCOMP 2022 results, including the results for the Spanish and French language competitions, see https://ifdb.org/viewcomp?id=uqtzg02u1apimhop Note results are split into Le Grand Guignol (over 4 hours writing) and La Petite Mort (under 4 hours writing). #InteractiveFiction #ComputerGames #Spooky #Halloween #Horror #CreativeWriting #TextAdventure #TextAdventures #ECTOCOMP #ECTOCOMP2022
The ECTOCOMP 2022 English language competition results have been announced. This competition is for spooky/Halloween themed #InteractiveFiction games. Including some written in under 4 hours, which is just amazing. Congratulations to all the participants! https://itch.io/jam/ectocomp-2022-english
#ComputerGames #Games #Spooky #Halloween #CreativeWriting #TextAdventure #TextAdventures #Horror #HorrorFiction #ECTOCOMP #ECTOCOMP2022
Here are the final results from the 2022 #IFComp for #InteractiveFiction games. This is a fantastic annual competition, that has been going since 1995. I remember its start! This year there was a wonderfully creative mix of traditional parser #TextAdventures and newer choice based games. I managed to play 20/70 games during the competition, and playtested 2 others. The favourite game I managed to play won the competition, much to my delight. Anyway check out the entries. https://ifcomp.org/comp/2022
Attempt at a concise but somewhat opinionated crash course to “modern” parser-based #InteractiveFiction and #TextAdventures and their conventions.
Thanks for the 16 Followers everyone, Just steadily posting my gamedev progress :)
But if there is anyone out there super interested in #textadventures I am currently working on one as well as my own custom text adventure engine that I plan to release if I can ever finish a project with it
As this is Mastodon, I ought be saying things with hashes like, #InteractiveFiction or #TextAdventures or maybe #CYOA so it's more searchable.
Just compiled a list of my top 10 favourite IF games. The list is in chronological order of release, and I’ve included some comments beside each of the games. https://ifdb.org/viewlist?id=fplmp7feqc2spqwj #InteractiveFiction #TextAdventures #ComputerGames
1985: Making TEXT ADVENTURE Games | Micro Live | Retro Gaming | BBC Archive - YouTube #InteractiveFiction #TextAdventures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXAubRZ-qjw
Was asked earlier what my favourite #InteractiveFiction games are. Really hard question! My answer: Infocom’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Graham Nelson’s Curses and IFComp winning The Wizard Sniffer. All traditional parser #TextAdventures though I love choice based too. I’ve been playing IF since 1980, when I first tried Colossal Cave on an Apple II. So many fond memories. I also recommend checking IFComp winners from last 28 years. Many superb games in that list. https://ifcomp.org/history
I’m so glad #KimJustice has given #TextAdventures some love. Playing them is how I learned to type. How I learned verbs and nouns. They helped me develop a love for #storytelling and #writing. #retro #retrogaming
Anyone else out there interested in classic #text-based #InteractiveFiction? Like the old #Infocom #games. I know there's an #IF community out there — are you on Mastodon?
#TextAdventures #AdventureGames #Zork #Inform #xyzzy #ClassicGames #frotz
:abunhdowohop: ’ello! Been here since 2017; never made an #introduction (as a daydreamy saddo I don’t have much of an output to follow).
Stuff!
· #Linux- and #Amiga-putterer
· #Dutch-beginner
· #Prose-#poetry-perpetrator, albeit rarely
· Timidly trying my hand at some atmospheric #electro #industrial #darkwave sort of stuff with #Renoise among other neat tools and toys
· #Language-…fan?
· Into #fantasy, #faerie, #scifi and #RPG #lore and art
· Occasionally wishing I were #goth again
· Part-time #vegan, #vegetarian otherwise
· Learned English from #textadventures, #interactivefiction, #heavymetal and OG #Marillion lyrics and the #demoscene
· Accordingly #old and #decrepit
· A #SocialLibertarian, maybe?
· #Panromantic, #homoflexible, and #ace(-ish), favouring #ENM/#polyamory and romantic power exchange
· Barely make it out of bed most days
I'm a #HigherEducation worker, straddling the line between #AppliedLinguistics and #InstructionalDesign.
My current interests include: #ScenarioBasedEducation
#BranchingScenarios
#TextAdventures
#ContentBasedLanguageTeaching
(#CLIL #EMI, #StuffLikeThat)
#TeachingPronunciation
#OpenEducation
I like to #InformationDump.
@textfiles Then there is his documentary Get Lamp, about #InteractiveFiction (aka #TextAdventures). A more focused film, it also does a great job of capturing a culture that existed -- and exists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Lamp http://www.getlamp.com/ #getlamp
Also all these documentaries are licensed under a #CreativeCommons license and Jason encourages you to download them. 5/
Xyzzy is a bot that posts randomly generated text adventure / interactive fiction scenarios. You can follow at:
➡️ @xyzzy
The bot posts every four hours, and you can reply to the posts to get responses related to the scenario.
#Xyzzy #TextAdventures #TextAdventure #InteractiveFiction #IF #Zork #Infocom #Inventory #GoNorth #GetLamp #Bot #Bots #Fun #Gaming #RetroGaming #MUD
This headline sucks. The words below it do not.
#InteractiveFiction #TextAdventures
https://openforeveryone.net/articles/jasons-interactive-text-adventures-journey-down-a-new-rabbit-hole/