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Text games and interactive fiction are all the rage!
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!
💬 2 comments · Sep 15 · 2 months ago
Interactive Fiction text games on Gemini [gemini link] [gemini link] A roguelike: [gemini link]
💬 1 like · Aug 28 · 3 months ago
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]
💬 1 comment · 2 likes · Aug 25 · 3 months ago
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...
💬 2 comments · 2 likes · Aug 25 · 3 months ago
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 · Aug 25 · 3 months ago