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Text adventures. It's not out yet, but I've been following the development of taustation which will be an in-browser space adventure using text as a medium to t
by throwaway7645 9y ago
Text adventures. It's not out yet, but I've been following the development of taustation which will be an in-browser space adventure using text as a medium to tell the story. It is multiplayer of course. There are a few games like this within a fantasy setting, but none Scifi that I've seen. The team does bi-monthly blog post updates going over everything from in game lore to artwork to code testing and architecture. The games creator and lead is an expert in the Perl community and wrote one of the best programming books in my rather large collection. So not doing a huge amount of playing at the moment, but eagerly anticipating. Check it out:
https://taustation.space/ https://taustation.space/
- tarboreus 9y agoAny other text-based games you'd care to recommend? I'm a fan of Counterfeit Monkey, Spider and Web, and a few particularly good Choice of Games games, like Lost Heir and Choice of the Deathless.
- throwaway7645 9y agoSounds like you're in the know! Andrew Plotkin(spider and web guy) did one for Linux/iOS/Android recently called Hadean Lands that got good reviews. I'm a big fan of most of Emily Short's work (Bronze was good if you like Beauty and the Beast with a bizarre plot line). I also really really liked City of Secrets as the storyline was riveting although I did get stuck at one point and can't find a good walkthrough. Alabaster to me was a beautiful & short work of art. Good stuff.
- tarboreus 9y agoGoing to check out Alabaster and City of Secrets. Already got through most of Emily Short and Andrew Plotkin's respective oeuvres. Thanks!