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If you wish to give feedback or ask questions; please go ahead. I and a workmate did this at a work-related hackathon a couple weeks ago.

willvarfar 12y ago
One fun idea for you is to theme it as an IDE and code rather than a classic terminal text adventure? I tried it for an LD a while back but http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/The-Small-world-of-Professor-Strange_2.jpg http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Th... didn't really get the text itself to look like code from a squint test, nor get syntax completion finished in time.
- badbanana 12y ago
  That's actually a super cool idea for a developer themed text game. Was it a web based game and is it still playable somewhere?
  - willvarfar 12y ago
    http://williame.github.io/ludum_dare_23_tiny_world/ http://williame.github.io/ludum_dare_23_tiny_world/ I've since been shown a nice IRSSI theme too: http://irssi.org/themefiles/c0ders.png http://irssi.org/themefiles/c0ders.png
xtrumanx 12y ago
The aesthetics does not make for easy reading. Never was interested in text adventures in the first place but the blurriness made me quit the game faster than I would have.
- badbanana 12y ago
  Yeah you're not the only one saying that. I guess text games aren't what the kids want these days :) There should probably be a switch to turn off the bad screen effects.
mkesper 12y ago
I really hate green on black and would like to read in positive mode (black on white).
teh_klev 12y ago
Nice idea, but can you allow folks to turn off the fake flickering/display faults. It's hugely distracting. Also the CGA style font is kinda hard to read, perhaps you could allow folks to: - change the font - adjust the brightness and contrast Back in the day when I was a mini-computer engineer our terminal screens were much nicer and crisp.
zyx321 12y ago
Well, my first instinct on the design puzzle was something among the lines of http://xkcd.com/149/ http://xkcd.com/149/ I was a little surprised to get a "no such command" error, especially after finding out the actual solution...
michaelmior 12y ago
Thanks! That was some nice entertainment for the morning :)
isxek 12y ago
I had originally submitted this a few days ago (see: http://imgur.com/uCRZuU4 http://imgur.com/uCRZuU4), after learning about it from a game-related site (http://www.gnomeslair.com/2014/06/avaus-text-adventure-so-you-wish-to.html http://www.gnomeslair.com/2014/06/avaus-text-adventure-so-yo...). Never made it to the front page at all. I'm glad it did, eventually. Should I stick a "Show HN" the next time I find something? I'm hesitant to do so since I wasn't the one who wrote it.

willvarfar 12y ago

One fun idea for you is to theme it as an IDE and code rather than a classic terminal text adventure? I tried it for an LD a while back but http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/The-Small-world-of-Professor-Strange_2.jpg http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Th... didn't really get the text itself to look like code from a squint test, nor get syntax completion finished in time.

badbanana 12y ago
That's actually a super cool idea for a developer themed text game. Was it a web based game and is it still playable somewhere?
- willvarfar 12y ago
  http://williame.github.io/ludum_dare_23_tiny_world/ http://williame.github.io/ludum_dare_23_tiny_world/ I've since been shown a nice IRSSI theme too: http://irssi.org/themefiles/c0ders.png http://irssi.org/themefiles/c0ders.png

xtrumanx 12y ago

The aesthetics does not make for easy reading. Never was interested in text adventures in the first place but the blurriness made me quit the game faster than I would have.

badbanana 12y ago
Yeah you're not the only one saying that. I guess text games aren't what the kids want these days :) There should probably be a switch to turn off the bad screen effects.

mkesper 12y ago

I really hate green on black and would like to read in positive mode (black on white).

teh_klev 12y ago

Nice idea, but can you allow folks to turn off the fake flickering/display faults. It's hugely distracting. Also the CGA style font is kinda hard to read, perhaps you could allow folks to: - change the font - adjust the brightness and contrast Back in the day when I was a mini-computer engineer our terminal screens were much nicer and crisp.

zyx321 12y ago

Well, my first instinct on the design puzzle was something among the lines of http://xkcd.com/149/ http://xkcd.com/149/ I was a little surprised to get a "no such command" error, especially after finding out the actual solution...

michaelmior 12y ago

Thanks! That was some nice entertainment for the morning :)

isxek 12y ago

I had originally submitted this a few days ago (see: http://imgur.com/uCRZuU4 http://imgur.com/uCRZuU4), after learning about it from a game-related site (http://www.gnomeslair.com/2014/06/avaus-text-adventure-so-you-wish-to.html http://www.gnomeslair.com/2014/06/avaus-text-adventure-so-yo...). Never made it to the front page at all. I'm glad it did, eventually. Should I stick a "Show HN" the next time I find something? I'm hesitant to do so since I wasn't the one who wrote it.