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#interactivefiction #twine #textadventures #narrativegames
HOLY COW! I think it works! 😍 Here is the first screenshot of #SilkDust playable in a browser. It is extremely basic, but it works! I still have plenty of problems to solve, but at least it is clearly feasible! #GameDev #IndieGame #javascript #emscripten #TextAdventures
#silkdust #gamedev #indiegame #javascript #emscripten #textadventures
The not-so-secret reason behind this would be to run my #TextAdventures from a web browser...
The Dominant Anti-Pattern in Text UX's Online
new blog post by me
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37101669
please upboat it on HN if you can
THANK YOU!
#Roguelike
#Roguelikes
#RoguelikeGames
#RoguelikeDev
#textgames
#textadventures
#TUI
#text
#plaintext
#ASCII
#Unicode
#UTF8
#UI
#UX
#UIAntiPatterns
#UXAntiPatterns
#GUIAntiPatterns
#WebAntiPatterns
#accessibility
#VisionImpaired
#VisionDisability
#glare
#highcontrast
#resizabletext
#fonts
#roguelike #roguelikes #roguelikegames #roguelikedev #textgames #textadventures #tui #text #plaintext #ascii #unicode #utf8 #ui #ux #uiantipatterns #uxantipatterns #guiantipatterns #webantipatterns #accessibility #visionimpaired #visiondisability #glare #highcontrast #resizabletext #fonts #curses #ncurses #terminal #terminals #shells #cli #clis
I'll pick a subset of my favorite games that also intersect with the set of games which are the inspirations for and influences upon my new game Slartboz:
1. NetHack
2. Infocom's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
3. Steve Jackson's Illuminati
and 4 more (imo) masterpieces which, I hope, you'll be able to tell once you see and get to play Slartboz for your very self
#HHGG
#HHGTTG
#DouglasAdams
#Infocom
#TextAdventures
#InteractiveFiction
#7gamestoknowme #nethack #roguelike #hhgg #hhgttg #douglasadams #infocom #textadventures #interactivefiction #illuminati
Slartboz
1st demo video of actual gameplay planned to debut July 31
I'll try to revive/resurrect Abro's gfren Fern in time, so she can make her public debut in that video. It may be hard. But I have a dark plan. And special tools. And thunderstorms in the forecast tonight...
#Fallout
#Idiocracy
#HHGG
#HHGTTG
#PrincessBride
#ThePrincessBride
#games
#GameDev
#IndieGames
#IndieGameDev
#IndieDev
#SoloDev
#RetroGaming
#fallout #idiocracy #hhgg #hhgttg #princessbride #theprincessbride #games #gamedev #indiegames #indiegamedev #indiedev #solodev #retrogaming #roguelike #roguelikes #roguelikedev #textadventures #interactivefiction
Slartboz: The Danger Shades
https://synystron.substack.com/p/slartboz-the-danger-shades
#HHGG
#HHGTTG
#Hitchhikers
#HitchhikersGuide
#DouglasAdams
#MostlyHarmless
#42
#games
#indiegames
#retrogaming
#roguelike
#TUI
#Infocom
#textgames
#TextAdventures
#InteractiveFiction
#comedy
#funny
#dystopia
#hhgg #hhgttg #hitchhikers #hitchhikersguide #douglasadams #mostlyharmless #games #indiegames #retrogaming #roguelike #tui #infocom #textgames #textadventures #interactivefiction #comedy #funny #dystopia
I remember King's Quest 1 was my very first Sierra text adventure. Back in 2001, I didn't understand a single word English so this and the other Sierra games helped me a lot to learn my first English vocabulary.
Do you think text adventures can be edutainment for kids too?
#Sierra #TextAdventures #AdventureGame #AdventureGames #Adventures #SierraAdventures #KingsQuest
#sierra #textadventures #adventuregame #adventuregames #adventures #sierraadventures #kingsquest
In der aktuellen MagPi-Ausgabe gibt es einen Artikel über Inform 7 = Programmierumgebung für Text-Adventures
Klingt sehr interessant - hat jemand von Euch damit Erfahrungen? Könnte mir vorstellen, dass dies auch etwas für den Informatik-Unterricht ist.
#textadventures #raspberrypi #inform7 #programmieren
@grumpygamer, Steampunk #TextAdventures for vintage computers with #pixelart splash screen do count? https://darwinne.itch.io I also wrote some music.
The Steam Summer Sale is happening now! I make graphical text adventures and they are on sale now.
Check out Jay Schilling's Edge of Chaos, a detective noise comedy, for Windows, Linux and Macs over at Steam. 35% off.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1432020/Jay_Schillings_Edge_of_Chaos/
#textadventures #steam #interactivefiction
50 Years of Text Games parses the rich history of a foundational genre - Enlarge / Some of the maps and decision trees mapped out in the book 50... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1948253 #textadventures #theoregontrail #legendofzork #oregontrail #textgames #features #culture #gaming #zork
#zork #gaming #culture #features #textgames #oregontrail #legendofzork #theoregontrail #textadventures
Ars Technica: 50 Years of Text Games parses the rich history of a foundational genre https://arstechnica.com/?p=1948253 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #TextAdventures #TheOregonTrail #LegendofZork #OregonTrail #textgames #Features #Culture #Gaming #zork
#Tech #arstechnica #it #technology #textadventures #theoregontrail #legendofzork #oregontrail #textgames #features #Culture #Gaming #zork
just arrived. thanks @aaronareed for putting so much effort into that topic
#interactivefiction #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
#parsergames #creativewriting #gamedev #textadventures #indiegames #interactivefiction #springthing
: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, Lua/LLÖVE2D and/or Python//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 and #ENM & romantic #PowerExchange but really I’d just like some hugs again some day
#powerexchange #enm #polyamory #pancuddly #demisexual #homoflexible #sociallibertarian #demoscene #interactivefiction #textadventures #amiga #linux #language #poetry #prose #renoise #electroindustrial #introduction
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
#computergames #programming #coding #inform #gamedev #textadventures #historicalgames #ScottishHistory #opensource #games #interactivefiction #parser #inform7 #sourcecode
Huh. I didn't realize the original Apple Computer logo included the same quote from Wordsworth's "The Prelude" that gave #Infocom's #AMindForeverVoyaging its title. #interactivefiction #textadventures #adventuregames
#infocom #amindforevervoyaging #interactivefiction #textadventures #adventuregames
also every time I see Scott Adams (racist MAGA) in the news I feel so sad for the Scott Adams who shaped my childhood, the text adventure writer http://www.msadams.com/index.htm
He probably introduces himself as "not that one". :( #textadventures #retrogames