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Text games and interactive fiction are all the rage!
Does anyone out there like playing old text based adventure games? I grew up playing Zork with my parents and I've probably sunk more time into drawing maps and writing myself walkthroughs than the full playtime of most other games I've played. Do any of you have any lesser-known text based adventure games you recommend?
Help me with my next "real" interactive fiction — OK. It's writer/developers' block again. It's fun to do small gamebooks and such, but I want to build a real thing (tm) and that's scary. So I'm kind of paralyzed among choices, choices, choices. These are: A honest to the gods dungeon. You know the drill, get inside, get lost, fail to guess the witty riddles, trigger an obvious trap, smash into monsters that you could avoid by reading and thinking a bit more, and die just when you're about to...
1974 done This is kind of a prototype, a 50 sections literary gamebook made to test if the format can work out: a single html file where all sections are linked by internal links and you roll your own dice.
1974 starting a new gamebook — Just started a gamebook called 1974, about a family living in a local post-apocalypse. The idea is that some fictional country, Redhesia, got into a civil war bad enough to lead to a local collapse in civilization. The outside world has done little but locked them in, patrolling every border so that the "dangerous" refugees cannot come into "civilization". It takes the form of letters written to an unknown "outsider",...
Photopia — I just finished Photopia (by Adam Cadre, 1998), before reading the chapter of 50 Years of Text Games. Having missed all of this back in the day, it was a total joy. I don't want to spoiler it for anyone, and strongly recommend it to all who missed it. [https link] I found this z file in the archive. Frotz it up!
Interactive Fiction text games on Gemini [gemini link] [gemini link] A roguelike: [gemini link]
Inform manuals and compiler — pdf documents to download: [gemini link] The Inform Designer's Manual (2001) [gemini link] The Inform Beginner's Guide (2002) The compiler, at github [https link]
Choice of Games — There is a publisher of "choose your own adventure" type games called "Choice of Games"; they're available on lots of platforms including web and mobile. I've tried a handful and they were mostly not too inspiring, not much in the way of surprises or replay value. But there are three I've found that are excellent, that I've replayed happily many times. The first is "Choice of Robot", in which you start off as a grad student building a robot and end up deciding ... well, the...
The Tedium of Gaming — My problem with most modern games is the extreme boredom that overcomes me when I watch someone playing. The age of increasingly realistic rendering has brought with it the real-life tedium of getting from place to place, combined with the chores that need to be performed (missions, etc)... Having made it my life's goal to _not_ have to do what some jackass tells me to do, why would I let a game boss me around? Interactive fiction games, especially adventure-like games...
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