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FieldDoc
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Who remembers some of the classic text games of days gone by? I remember spending hours playing 'Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy' text game on the BBC computer. Or what about Animal, Vegetable or Mineral? That was a great game for those who remember it.

The reason i'm asking is this is because I have a game concept running around my head at the moment. Trouble is, it's text based. I actually think it's quite an ambitious project but I just wonder if anyone would even bother to look at it if there are no fast moving 3D images etc. It won't be all text, but the majority of the game will be. Would anyone even give it try?


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Evil Noodle
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I would !
I found Graham Cluleys adventures great fun (Anyone remember Humbug or Jacaranda Jim)

http://www.grahamcluley.com/jim.html

It would need to be chocka with humour though.
Heres some research material
http://www.sparkynet.com/spag/
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Pincho Paxton
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I played lots of text games in the past. I suppose they are a bit outdated, I'd play one if it had graphics! LOL! J/K But you did say that yours had graphics, and I think that it's so easy to put screen pics in the game that it is really pointless making a text game today.

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Ian T
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Text based games are fun . I'd play it. I made a text-based fighting (stupid, I know) game in the past myself...

--Mouse: Famous (Avatarless) Fighting Furball

A very nice %it, indeed.
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cusoi
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I would look at it and played it... I like text games, but 3D games are even more fun I think, so I think you'd better spent your time on making a 3D game. But it's your choice of course, and I would play it, wheter it has graphics or not

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FieldDoc
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Cheers guys!

I plan on making a comical game, so if anything it should be a laugh!

@Evil Noodle,
Thanks for the links mate....very informative.


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Elleomea
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Aww, humbug ruled! Lots of really wierd ways to die. Plenty of really wierd way to live too! Reminds me that I should get around to finishing my PHP text adventure parser. Good luck FieldDoc!

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Damokles
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And don't forget the best thing : If somebody used bad words, there should be good replies

"Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop." - Lewis Carroll
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MicroMan
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Infocom games!

Zork!

*sigh*

Now I'm feeling nostalgic. But i doubt one would think they were very interesting if one played them today.

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FieldDoc
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@Elleomea:
Thanks for the encouragement. Good luck with the parser....they are never fun to write (but are immensely satisfying when they work!).

@Damokles:
They'll be good replies, don't worry. They'll also be bad words from the NPCs!

@Microman:
Good games never lose their magic....even after 15 years!


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Shadow
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The easiest text game to make is a series of choices, where the correct choice makes you proceed, and an incorrect choice ends the game. When I was younger, I used to make "The Adventures of Moomoo the Cow" games in QBasic. The logical choices were almost always the ones that got you killed.
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Arrow
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I've seen a few text game on Cnet.com that were made relitively resently.


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Elleomea
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I recommend everyone try 9:05. It's really short but it is such a neat game!

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UberTuba
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ahhhh zork...
so many memories.
most of withch involve a lamp and a chimney, infact

the artist formally known as darkfluff
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Pincho Paxton
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9:05 looks interesting but I was swarmed by a zillion choices of interpreter, and I didn't know which one to use. Couldn't see anything that said Z5.

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MicroMan
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There was a pretty decent British adventure-game-house as well. What on earth were they called? They made a string of text games with still pictures for the C64 and Amiga...

Oh well.

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Elleomea
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MicroMan: Are you think of Level 9? Most of their games were originally for the spectrum and BBC but they got ported to a whole bunch of others. But that's the most famous British text adventure company I can think of.

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text games make me hurl...
I dont like havin to use my imagination, it makes me hurl...
if i shove my finger in my mouth, it makes me hurl...
zork was fun, but i was sick that day, so i had to hurl...
best text game ever was and is munkyisland, but now i have to hurl...
people stare at me when i hurl...
which makes me...
hurl......

DONT @$#%#@$% MESS WITH ME! I'll kupo your @$$!
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Pincho Paxton
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Stop saying that!............ you'll make me hurl!

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