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Does anyone know of tools to make very basic text games and publish them to the web... like Choose Your Own Adventure type stories?

tomku 6y ago
Twine: https://twinery.org https://twinery.org
- the_af 6y ago
  This. While TADS, Inform and others are sophisticated tools (more like programming languages, really) to build adventures like Zork or even more complex, for a simple Choose Your Own Adventure something like Twine is better.
- immigrantsheep 6y ago
  Inky as well https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/ https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/
  - pimlottc 6y ago
    This is the engine behind the fantastic game 80 Days, for those who don’t know. Highly recommended.
- throwaway123x2 6y ago
  This looks great, thank you!
DonHopkins 6y ago
Logo Adventure: https://donhopkins.medium.com/logo-adventure-for-c64-terrapin-logo-4c684a240b53 https://donhopkins.medium.com/logo-adventure-for-c64-terrapi...
ineptech 6y ago
"Interactive Fiction" is probably the search term you need. Might start here: http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/FAQ#How_can_I_write_my_own_game.3F http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/FAQ#How_can_I_write_my_own_g...
moreoutput 6y ago
Let me shamelessly plug a project I'll probably always be poking at: https://github.com/MoreOutput/RockMUD https://github.com/MoreOutput/RockMUD I mainly played DIKU stuff so it feels a bit like that OOTB, but its very flexible (i hope).
senkora 6y ago
The people I know who have done this have used Inform: http://inform7.com http://inform7.com
thaumasiotes 6y ago
The tool to publish a Choose Your Own Adventure story to the web is just HTML. You have passages of text that link to other passages of text.
- samizdis 6y ago
  You can also use Google Forms, and embed those within Google Sites. I've been doing this to create media training exercises for interviewing techniques, and they've been popular with the journalism students.
TheHideout 6y ago
If you're interested in trying to do it in Rust, I've made a series of simple text games that you could use as an example [0]. Rust will work for web and someone has added web support for these, but I haven't merged it in yet. [0] https://github.com/Syn-Nine/rust-mini-games https://github.com/Syn-Nine/rust-mini-games
screaminghawk 6y ago
I've used this angular framework in the past with great success https://github.com/danielstern/cyo https://github.com/danielstern/cyo Searching "cyoa" on github brings back a tons of results that you can filter through to meet your tech stack needs.
JoeDaDude 6y ago
FWIW: In one of my classes, the teacher taught us Prolog by making us write a text adventure using it. It turned out to be well suited to the task. Except for the "publish to the web part". https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~matuszek/cis554-2015/Assignments/prolog-02-adventure-game.html https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~matuszek/cis554-2015/Assignments/...
sprkwd 6y ago
You want inform 7. http://inform7.com/ http://inform7.com/
brlewis 6y ago
If TypeScript and OO are your thing, I made some code for this: https://gitlab.com/brlewis/mud-eventemitter https://gitlab.com/brlewis/mud-eventemitter

tomku 6y ago

Twine: https://twinery.org https://twinery.org

the_af 6y ago
This. While TADS, Inform and others are sophisticated tools (more like programming languages, really) to build adventures like Zork or even more complex, for a simple Choose Your Own Adventure something like Twine is better.
immigrantsheep 6y ago
Inky as well https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/ https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/
- pimlottc 6y ago
  This is the engine behind the fantastic game 80 Days, for those who don’t know. Highly recommended.
throwaway123x2 6y ago
This looks great, thank you!

DonHopkins 6y ago

Logo Adventure: https://donhopkins.medium.com/logo-adventure-for-c64-terrapin-logo-4c684a240b53 https://donhopkins.medium.com/logo-adventure-for-c64-terrapi...

ineptech 6y ago

"Interactive Fiction" is probably the search term you need. Might start here: http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/FAQ#How_can_I_write_my_own_game.3F http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/FAQ#How_can_I_write_my_own_g...

moreoutput 6y ago

Let me shamelessly plug a project I'll probably always be poking at: https://github.com/MoreOutput/RockMUD https://github.com/MoreOutput/RockMUD I mainly played DIKU stuff so it feels a bit like that OOTB, but its very flexible (i hope).

senkora 6y ago

The people I know who have done this have used Inform: http://inform7.com http://inform7.com

thaumasiotes 6y ago

The tool to publish a Choose Your Own Adventure story to the web is just HTML. You have passages of text that link to other passages of text.

samizdis 6y ago
You can also use Google Forms, and embed those within Google Sites. I've been doing this to create media training exercises for interviewing techniques, and they've been popular with the journalism students.

TheHideout 6y ago

If you're interested in trying to do it in Rust, I've made a series of simple text games that you could use as an example [0]. Rust will work for web and someone has added web support for these, but I haven't merged it in yet. [0] https://github.com/Syn-Nine/rust-mini-games https://github.com/Syn-Nine/rust-mini-games

screaminghawk 6y ago

I've used this angular framework in the past with great success https://github.com/danielstern/cyo https://github.com/danielstern/cyo Searching "cyoa" on github brings back a tons of results that you can filter through to meet your tech stack needs.

JoeDaDude 6y ago

FWIW: In one of my classes, the teacher taught us Prolog by making us write a text adventure using it. It turned out to be well suited to the task. Except for the "publish to the web part". https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~matuszek/cis554-2015/Assignments/prolog-02-adventure-game.html https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~matuszek/cis554-2015/Assignments/...

sprkwd 6y ago

You want inform 7. http://inform7.com/ http://inform7.com/

brlewis 6y ago

If TypeScript and OO are your thing, I made some code for this: https://gitlab.com/brlewis/mud-eventemitter https://gitlab.com/brlewis/mud-eventemitter