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Lost Pig

46 points by snth 12y ago

rmorabia 12y ago
I played this months ago. It's a highly entertaining game that serves as a great introduction to text-based games (formally called Interactive Fiction).
- jmspring 12y ago
  Pretty sure formerly "text-based games" got relabeled "interactive fiction" Lost Pig has one more than a couple of IF related awards. IF is a great addition to tablets when traveling -- light weight, lots of options, a nice compliment to books (kindle app or otherwise).
  - TeMPOraL 12y ago
    > Pretty sure formerly "text-based games" got relabeled "interactive fiction" That's what GP said. He wrote "formally", not "formerly" ;).
acomjean 12y ago
I think I saw this played as a group at Fig Boston. The audience would shout out commands and someone at the front would type them it. They had people voicing the characters. Its worked out much better than expected, people were laughing. Its amazing how much better these games (now known as interactive fiction) have gotten since Zork or Planetfall. Its much better at understanding what you type. And google shows that the lost pig was the game played live: http://bostonfig.com/interactive-fiction/ http://bostonfig.com/interactive-fiction/
tempodox 12y ago
Quote: Grunk think that pig probably go this way. It hard to tell at night time, because moon not bright as sun. There forest to east and north. It even darker there, and Grunk hear lots of strange animal. West of Grunk, there big field with little stone wall. Farm back to south. Orc English really bad bad. Me prefers to spare me self that pain.
philodespotos 12y ago
In case anyone else overlooks it, this will take you directly to a playable-in-browser version of the game: http://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A//mirror.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/LostPig.zblorb http://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A//mirror.ifarchive.org/if-a... (Driven by Parchment[1], which is truly awesome and let's you play tons of different IF games!) [1]: https://code.google.com/p/parchment/ https://code.google.com/p/parchment/
Adaptive 12y ago
I used this game to intro kids to command-line usage in a recent Linux-for-kids class I taught. Worked wonders. Once they were comfortable with the IF parser, moving to CLI was much easier.
- vanderZwan 12y ago
  That's a pretty cool idea! Perhaps I should try that out myself with my classes. Maybe someone could make an IF game specifically around learning the CLI?
  - reitanqild 12y ago
    That be tried. Was advertised HN maybe last year. I paid (and got money back no asking) one attempts. Cannot remember name. edit: style match topic

46 points by snth 12y ago

I played this months ago. It's a highly entertaining game that serves as a great introduction to text-based games (formally called Interactive Fiction).

jmspring 12y ago
Pretty sure formerly "text-based games" got relabeled "interactive fiction" Lost Pig has one more than a couple of IF related awards. IF is a great addition to tablets when traveling -- light weight, lots of options, a nice compliment to books (kindle app or otherwise).
- TeMPOraL 12y ago
  > Pretty sure formerly "text-based games" got relabeled "interactive fiction" That's what GP said. He wrote "formally", not "formerly" ;).

acomjean 12y ago

I think I saw this played as a group at Fig Boston. The audience would shout out commands and someone at the front would type them it. They had people voicing the characters. Its worked out much better than expected, people were laughing. Its amazing how much better these games (now known as interactive fiction) have gotten since Zork or Planetfall. Its much better at understanding what you type. And google shows that the lost pig was the game played live: http://bostonfig.com/interactive-fiction/ http://bostonfig.com/interactive-fiction/

tempodox 12y ago

Quote: Grunk think that pig probably go this way. It hard to tell at night time, because moon not bright as sun. There forest to east and north. It even darker there, and Grunk hear lots of strange animal. West of Grunk, there big field with little stone wall. Farm back to south. Orc English really bad bad. Me prefers to spare me self that pain.

philodespotos 12y ago

In case anyone else overlooks it, this will take you directly to a playable-in-browser version of the game: http://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A//mirror.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/LostPig.zblorb http://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A//mirror.ifarchive.org/if-a... (Driven by Parchment[1], which is truly awesome and let's you play tons of different IF games!) [1]: https://code.google.com/p/parchment/ https://code.google.com/p/parchment/

Adaptive 12y ago

I used this game to intro kids to command-line usage in a recent Linux-for-kids class I taught. Worked wonders. Once they were comfortable with the IF parser, moving to CLI was much easier.

vanderZwan 12y ago
That's a pretty cool idea! Perhaps I should try that out myself with my classes. Maybe someone could make an IF game specifically around learning the CLI?
- reitanqild 12y ago
  That be tried. Was advertised HN maybe last year. I paid (and got money back no asking) one attempts. Cannot remember name. edit: style match topic