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You could do that with whatever interactive fiction tools you want, combined with some form of speech to text software. For instance, Inform 7 for your IF tool

You could do that with whatever interactive fiction tools you want, combined with some form of speech to text software. For instance, Inform 7 for your IF tool, and any of the following for speech to text: https://www.lifewire.com/state-of-linux-voice-recognition-2204883 https://www.lifewire.com/state-of-linux-voice-recognition-22... That said, I'm not sure how good any of those speech to text tools actually are, so, this might be kind of a pipe dream at the moment. Also, I know you meant "Choose Your Own Adventure," but my immediate first thought was "Cover Your Own Ass." I may have spent too much time in corporate America. :/

germinalphrase 6y ago
Thanks. It really is the voice to text that is the concern. I noodled around with an interactive fiction game concept a while back focused on a nuclear showdown. I wanted to build it into an red analog telephone. The phone would ring and you would hear a message from various government/military types. As tensions rise, the phone rings more often, possibly multiple lines light up forcing you to catch/miss vital information or opportunities. Inevitably, things go pear-shaped and you try to (prevent?) a first strike/retaliatory strike. Truthfully, I don’t have the skills to build the device, but plotting out the narrative, writing the dialogue would be fun.
- aaronareed 6y ago
  This is an incredible game idea and you should absolutely make this because I want to play it!
  - bluGill 6y ago
    Great idea, but very hard to pull off. The hardware is easy, but all the wrting and plot needed to go from a demo to a fun game takes a lot of hard tedious work. I encourage the effort, but don't want to well it short. The idea is the easy part.
- pmiller2 6y ago
  Why would the device need to be any more complicated than a bluetooth speaker and microphone driven by a Raspberry Pi or something? That effectively reduces all the engineering necessary to making a case for the Pi that looks like a red rotary or push button phone, and stuffing a speaker and mic into the handset.
  - germinalphrase 6y ago
    Right. That is clearly the general answer. Ideally - I would like it to be an actual red push button telephone with multiple lines to add complexity to the narrative - but simpler would be a fine start. Edit: basically - put a game inside this https://share.icloud.com/photos/0IH5hOBO_KECT2gSpzd5-n_4g https://share.icloud.com/photos/0IH5hOBO_KECT2gSpzd5-n_4g
    - pmiller2 6y ago
      That doesn't seem terribly tough, either, given that the Pi has 40 GPIO pins: https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/physical-computing/1 https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/physical-comput... A push button is literally one of the most trivial things you can wire up to GPIO. You can also interact with GPIO in Python pretty easily: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/usage/gpio/python/README.md https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/usage/gpio/python/...

germinalphrase 6y ago

Thanks. It really is the voice to text that is the concern. I noodled around with an interactive fiction game concept a while back focused on a nuclear showdown. I wanted to build it into an red analog telephone. The phone would ring and you would hear a message from various government/military types. As tensions rise, the phone rings more often, possibly multiple lines light up forcing you to catch/miss vital information or opportunities. Inevitably, things go pear-shaped and you try to (prevent?) a first strike/retaliatory strike. Truthfully, I don’t have the skills to build the device, but plotting out the narrative, writing the dialogue would be fun.

aaronareed 6y ago
This is an incredible game idea and you should absolutely make this because I want to play it!
- bluGill 6y ago
  Great idea, but very hard to pull off. The hardware is easy, but all the wrting and plot needed to go from a demo to a fun game takes a lot of hard tedious work. I encourage the effort, but don't want to well it short. The idea is the easy part.
pmiller2 6y ago
Why would the device need to be any more complicated than a bluetooth speaker and microphone driven by a Raspberry Pi or something? That effectively reduces all the engineering necessary to making a case for the Pi that looks like a red rotary or push button phone, and stuffing a speaker and mic into the handset.
- germinalphrase 6y ago
  Right. That is clearly the general answer. Ideally - I would like it to be an actual red push button telephone with multiple lines to add complexity to the narrative - but simpler would be a fine start. Edit: basically - put a game inside this https://share.icloud.com/photos/0IH5hOBO_KECT2gSpzd5-n_4g https://share.icloud.com/photos/0IH5hOBO_KECT2gSpzd5-n_4g
  - pmiller2 6y ago
    That doesn't seem terribly tough, either, given that the Pi has 40 GPIO pins: https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/physical-computing/1 https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/physical-comput... A push button is literally one of the most trivial things you can wire up to GPIO. You can also interact with GPIO in Python pretty easily: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/usage/gpio/python/README.md https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/usage/gpio/python/...