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Counterfeit Monkey by Emily Short. https://github.com/i7/counterfeit-monkey/releases https://github.com/i7/counterfeit-monkey/releases Maps and cheat sheets are
by sp332 4y ago
Counterfeit Monkey by Emily Short. https://github.com/i7/counterfeit-monkey/releases https://github.com/i7/counterfeit-monkey/releases Maps and cheat sheets are in the "Counterfeit Monkey.materials" folder.
If you don't want to install a parser on your computer, you can play it online by putting the link to the .gblorb file into https://iplayif.com/ https://iplayif.com/ I.e. https://iplayif.com/?story=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fi7%2Fcounterfeit-monkey%2Freleases%2Fdownload%2Fr10%2FCounterfeitMonkey-10.gblorb https://iplayif.com/?story=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fi7%2Fc...
Modern games are generally going to be more approachable than old ones. Tastes have changed considerably. In the days when you couldn't pull up a walkthrough in a few seconds, taking days to think of the next step was part of the fun, and just getting permanently stuck at some point was fairly common. Also, letting the player keep going even after they have done something to make the game unwinnable is now considered very uncool. Navigation is much less tedious these days as well, fast travel for example, although the exact mechanics depend on the game.
And that's not mentioning the amount of CPU and RAM available, not only for the game's runtime, but also for tools like I7 (which was used to write Counterfeit Monkey).
For an quicker introduction to modern "interactive fiction", as it's called these days, check out competition entries. https://intfiction.org/c/competitions/7 https://intfiction.org/c/competitions/7 These are generally written in a shorter amount of time and the results are quicker to play through.
- ghaff 4y agoMy vast nostalgia for Infocom games--and the vast care and effort that went into those games--notwithstanding, they were written using 40 year old tech to run on machines that, at least initially, might have had a floppy disk and maybe 64K of memory (or less). Yes, they're more playable than a lot of graphics games of the time would be today, but they're from a different age. Still dip into them every now and then though :-)
- jah 4y agoSavoir-Faire (https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=p0cizeb3kiwzlm2p https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=p0cizeb3kiwzlm2p) is another incredible game of hers.