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I have a coworker who adapts old text adventure games into simple roleplaying games for his young daughters. Planetfall is their favorite. When I was a kid my

I have a coworker who adapts old text adventure games into simple roleplaying games for his young daughters. Planetfall is their favorite. When I was a kid my parents didn't have a lot of money, so instead of playing video games, I would design entire worlds on paper that looked very similar. Of course, I couldn't play them--the D&D aspect to this is pretty neat. (I also designed my own cardboard Transformers that would actually transform! I was really proud of those. I remember I had little sliding bits, like revealing the robot's head.)

RyanMcGreal 13y ago
> I also designed my own cardboard Transformers that would actually transform! Heh. I used to make paper Transformers that transformed. They were at least as fun as the real toys, and a lot more portable. I may even still have them somewhere in a box. Later I graduated to making Lego Transformers that transformed. When I bequeathed my childhood Lego bin to my older son, it still had some Lego Transformers in it. I had to explain to him what Transformers were, because this was before the Michael Bay reboot.
drivers99 13y ago
> When I was a kid my parents didn't have a lot of money, so instead of playing video games, I would design entire worlds on paper that looked very similar. This makes me smile. I actually did this as well in the 80s. I was inspired by games I saw on my friend's computer, so I'd fold a piece of notebook paper into 8 pieces (or 16 if you use both sides) and draw "screens" that you could move between. I'd tear off a small piece of paper and draw the player's character on it. I'd design the game during class-time, then I'd have my friend play it at recess. He'd move the character around and I'd change things around to the correct screens when he moved from screen to screen.

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I have a coworker who adapts old text adventure games into simple roleplaying games for his young daughters. Planetfall is their favorite. When I was a kid my

by mratzloff 13y ago

RyanMcGreal 13y ago
> I also designed my own cardboard Transformers that would actually transform! Heh. I used to make paper Transformers that transformed. They were at least as fun as the real toys, and a lot more portable. I may even still have them somewhere in a box. Later I graduated to making Lego Transformers that transformed. When I bequeathed my childhood Lego bin to my older son, it still had some Lego Transformers in it. I had to explain to him what Transformers were, because this was before the Michael Bay reboot.
drivers99 13y ago
> When I was a kid my parents didn't have a lot of money, so instead of playing video games, I would design entire worlds on paper that looked very similar. This makes me smile. I actually did this as well in the 80s. I was inspired by games I saw on my friend's computer, so I'd fold a piece of notebook paper into 8 pieces (or 16 if you use both sides) and draw "screens" that you could move between. I'd tear off a small piece of paper and draw the player's character on it. I'd design the game during class-time, then I'd have my friend play it at recess. He'd move the character around and I'd change things around to the correct screens when he moved from screen to screen.