One well-known designer still producing text-based games is "Porpentine". Her work is mostly built using the Twine engine/platform/backend, which runs in a bro

One well-known designer still producing text-based games is "Porpentine". Her work is mostly built using the Twine engine/platform/backend, which runs in a browser. (There is a seemingly active community around Twine; Porpentine is just the most well-known developer that I've run across.) Some of her works are more what I'd think of as "interactive fiction" as opposed to "games", although they certainly serve to blur the line between the two genres. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porpentine_(game_designer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porpentine_(game_designer) I am particularly a fan of "Ultra Business Tycoon II": http://aliendovecote.com/uploads/twine/tycoon/crime.html http://aliendovecote.com/uploads/twine/tycoon/crime.html