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Text games and interactive fiction are all the rage!
Interactive Fiction text games on Gemini [gemini link] [gemini link] A roguelike: [gemini link]
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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]
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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...
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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...
💬 3 comments · 1 like · 2023-08-25 · 2 weeks ago