Subj : Re: For Honour...
To   : Blue White
From : fusion
Date : Mon Mar 11 2024 10:53:10

On 11 Mar 2024, Blue White said the following...
 
 BW>  > There's a *massive* text adventure game community though, so it's not
 BW>  > like text games are dead.. there's just a disconnect i guess. Maybe
 BW>  > someone needs to write a text adventure game engine door or something.
 BW>  > With progress saving.
 BW>  
 BW> Maybe the trick here is to get that community hooked up to BBSing.
 BW> 
 BW> An engine such as this may already exist.  deuce has created a clone of
 BW> LORD in JS.  If one were to take that as a starting point, you could
 BW> probably create any text adventure that you wanted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inform
&
https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/

it would need some bbs-specific upgrades.. but also some of these games
people already just run if they're able to redirect dos programs.

the multinode stuff would obviously just be limited to talking. maybe leaving
"graffiti" on a wall in some random locations in games the door has extra 
data for.

it's a neat idea.. if anything you'd have some new games once a year or so

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 * Origin: cold fusion - cfbbs.net - grand rapids, mi (21:1/616)

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