Text Adventure Games
Cluster focuses on classic text adventure games like Zork and Infocom titles, including discussions of their history, interpreters like the Z-machine, modern tools such as Inform 7, archives, and recommendations for playing them.
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Text adventure games, a la Infocom.
You may enjoy the Interactive Fiction Archive -- including thousands of text adventures, tools, articles, essays, hints, jokes, and more.http://www.ifarchive.org/
Get Dungeon instead of Zork I-II-III, it's closer to the original concept.https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=4gxk83ja4twckm6j
I want to see more things like Zork and Inform7.
It's a featured article on Wikipedia! (“This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on May 17, 2022.”)Also there are many versions/implementations:- https://www.ifwiki.org/Adventure#Versions- https://mipmip.org/advfamily/advfamily
Hmmm, just like Text Adventure games.
I guess text adventures aren't as fashionable or exciting any more :'(
The Infocom text adventures (e.g. Zork) were based on a VMhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine
If you like the Zork "engine", learn Inform 7. If you like the Colossal Cave "engine" better, you might like to look at https://github.com/Quuxplusone/Advent/blob/master/ODWY0350/a... — it's very easy to remodel with your own rooms, items, verbs, and so on. (So is the original Fortran, but then y
If you've never experienced what text adventures were like, this would be a fun place to start:http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml(requires flash)HN thread about it:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8960933