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The Lost Kingdom: World's first text adventure game written in Brainfuck

43 points by ChickeNES 8y ago

speps 8y ago
It's fun to notice when people found a HN link from another HN. I'm pretty sure OP found it from this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17599775 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17599775
- pimlottc 8y ago
  It’s that sense of shared experience: “ah, I know what article you were reading...” I wonder what the longest daisy-chain of connected HN posts you could piece together...
  - ardillaroja 8y ago
    Makes you question our free will...
    - justwalt 8y ago
      As long as it feels like we have agency, then everything’s peachy, right?
the_duke 8y ago
HN kiss of death. Edit: https://web.archive.org/web/20180725080235/http://jonripley.com/i-fiction/games/LostKingdomBF.html https://web.archive.org/web/20180725080235/http://jonripley....
andyjohnson0 8y ago
> Lost Kingdom is a conversion into Brainfuck of my game 'Lost Kingdom' which won the First Annual Classic 2k Text Adventure Competition in 2004. Was this written by hand or transpiled from the earlier BBC Basic version? If it's the former then I'm super-impressed: 2MB of hand-written bf code seems like an immense undertaking.
- _verandaguy 8y ago
  Not to downplay 2MB of handwritten code in any language, but this is 2MB of potentially-handwritten code in a language with a hilariously small amount of abstraction and a minuscule instruction set (since it'd be a bit exaggerative to call it a standard library). If this _is_ handwritten, I'm in awe of the developer's spatial orientation within their own code base.
  - cstross 8y ago
    Not to minimize the awe and mad brainfuck skillz, but ... esolangs can be used productively, FSVO productivity; for example, the CLC-INTERCAL compiler is self-hosting (it was originally implemented in Perl but rewritten in its own dialect fairly early on in its development).
    - pradn 8y ago
      What does FSVO mean here?
      - sokoloff 8y ago
        For Some Value Of (presumably)
- bryanrasmussen 8y ago
  they're definitely nearing 4 million lines of basic territory
davrosthedalek 8y ago
How many people died trying to pull this off?
gsaga 8y ago
>Who can program anything useful with it? :) ... A person in the geek crowd raises his hand... Me

43 points by ChickeNES 8y ago

It's fun to notice when people found a HN link from another HN. I'm pretty sure OP found it from this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17599775 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17599775

pimlottc 8y ago
It’s that sense of shared experience: “ah, I know what article you were reading...” I wonder what the longest daisy-chain of connected HN posts you could piece together...
- ardillaroja 8y ago
  Makes you question our free will...
  - justwalt 8y ago
    As long as it feels like we have agency, then everything’s peachy, right?

the_duke 8y ago

HN kiss of death. Edit: https://web.archive.org/web/20180725080235/http://jonripley.com/i-fiction/games/LostKingdomBF.html https://web.archive.org/web/20180725080235/http://jonripley....

andyjohnson0 8y ago

> Lost Kingdom is a conversion into Brainfuck of my game 'Lost Kingdom' which won the First Annual Classic 2k Text Adventure Competition in 2004. Was this written by hand or transpiled from the earlier BBC Basic version? If it's the former then I'm super-impressed: 2MB of hand-written bf code seems like an immense undertaking.

_verandaguy 8y ago
Not to downplay 2MB of handwritten code in any language, but this is 2MB of potentially-handwritten code in a language with a hilariously small amount of abstraction and a minuscule instruction set (since it'd be a bit exaggerative to call it a standard library). If this _is_ handwritten, I'm in awe of the developer's spatial orientation within their own code base.
- cstross 8y ago
  Not to minimize the awe and mad brainfuck skillz, but ... esolangs can be used productively, FSVO productivity; for example, the CLC-INTERCAL compiler is self-hosting (it was originally implemented in Perl but rewritten in its own dialect fairly early on in its development).
  - pradn 8y ago
    What does FSVO mean here?
    - sokoloff 8y ago
      For Some Value Of (presumably)
bryanrasmussen 8y ago
they're definitely nearing 4 million lines of basic territory

davrosthedalek 8y ago

How many people died trying to pull this off?

gsaga 8y ago

>Who can program anything useful with it? :) ... A person in the geek crowd raises his hand... Me