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Re: Text-based Adventures
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Wed, 21 Jan 2004 05:37:28 GMT
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In lugnet.gaming, Andrew Engstrom wrote:
> Anyone every played 'em?
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> Text-based adventures caught my attention last week when I visited the Homestar
> Runner website (http://www.homestarrunner.com). Strong Bad answered an email
> about what he would be like in a game, blah, blah...
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> And at the end of it, the website's creator had created a (very) short version
> of his example of a text-based game.
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> Now, having grown up in the age of color, lights, sound, and fast action, this
> struck me, as it is said, as "Something Completely Different." (a little Python
> humor there...) I set out to find out where I could make one of my own, and lo
> and behold, a billion gazillion websites pop up on the search engine.
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> I'm currently learning to use two different game creators (one is newer and
> includes mouse commands), but I'd like the input of any "experienced" text-ers.
> Any suggestions, hints, rules to follow? And if anyone out there is interested
> in seeing the final product, just let me know and I'll post it here on off-topic
> (maybe in gaming, too, if there's an audience) WHEN IT IS DONE. Not a
> guarantee for a date, because this is a hobby, not to mention one that competes
> with my LEGO hobby ;-)
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> So, yeah. Any input would be appreciated. Here's to Text-Based Games!
> Andrew
Make a map for yourself. Be clever. Be complete. Know your subject. Be funny
and amusing. If you decide to do graphics, for heaven's sake don't have
multiple characters that you have to simultaneously have to manipulate and
figure out all the permutations of actions for.
Kids today. They act like they never saw Colossal Cave, Zork, Scott Adams...
;-)
-->Bruce<--
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| (...) Ah, Colossal Cave Adventure. Still one of the greatest computer games of all time. Back in the days before frame rates and polygon counts dictated what made a "good" game. Back when most of the action happened in the mind's eye. If you're (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | Re: Text-based Adventures
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| (...) Ahh, Colossal Cave - an interesting experiment that actually started off as a map of part of Mammoth Cave. I was playing with text adventure games a few years ago. There are some nice tools out there, including some incredible reverse (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I may have missed the boat on Scott Adams, but the only text-ish adventures of his that I ever played were those Marvel Comics "Questprobe" games, which I found, let us say, disappointing. Were there other good ones that I didn't get to play? (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Anyone every played 'em? Text-based adventures caught my attention last week when I visited the Homestar Runner website ((URL) Strong Bad answered an email about what he would be like in a game, blah, blah... And at the end of it, the website's (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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