[HN Gopher] The Classic Adventures Solution Archive
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The Classic Adventures Solution Archive
Author : elvis70
Score : 44 points
Date : 2024-03-03 15:16 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.solutionarchive.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.solutionarchive.com)
| rerx wrote:
| Huge archive that's heavily biased towards text adventures /
| interactive fiction. There are only three titles published by
| Lucasfilm Games, and they predate Monkey Island.
| extesy wrote:
| I always loved playing adventures from Level 9 Computing [1],
| particularly The Worm in Paradise. At that time, no solutions
| were available, so there was a lot of trial and error involved. I
| played on Spectrum, and I remember being amazed at their graphics
| engine that managed to present a full-screen (well, technically a
| half-screen) illustration for every location in the game. There
| definitely wasn't enough memory for that, so they probably have
| used some generative algorithm.
|
| [1] https://www.solutionarchive.com/list/company%2C4/
| pm215 wrote:
| Looking at the Level 9 interpreter sources from
| https://github.com/DavidKinder/Level9 it looks like the pre-
| bitmap games stored their images as little bytecode programs
| (with instructions for move, draw, fill, etc, plus a gosub
| opcode so you could have "draw the same complex shape several
| times", opcodes for reflecting and scaling, etc) -- check the
| getinstruction() function in level9.c.
|
| So likely hand-composed, not generative algorithm, I think.
| philips wrote:
| Any recommendations of text based adventure games for kids?
|
| My one child loves playing the Sorcery[1] series with me- I read
| out loud and they make the choices.
|
| [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcery!_(video_game)
| 7thaccount wrote:
| For kids, I tend to skip IF and instead just make up role
| playing games with them. My kid will ask me to come up with
| like a my little pony themed adventure and she'll control two
| characters and I'll also control a character and play the DM.
| By being a character myself it adds some richness and allows me
| to give less obvious hints and push the story to a degree while
| still giving her room and autonomy. It works really well with
| kids ~5-7 so far, although it takes a bit out of me lol.
|
| For IF, my kid has enjoyed doing some Zork with me, but the
| puzzles are pretty difficult.
| alisonatwork wrote:
| My dad did this for my sister and I growing up and it was
| excellent.
|
| We also played some text adventures, but I wouldn't recommend
| them for today's kids. Back then it was just cool to sit in
| front of a computer in the first place so bashing our heads
| against the wall for months trying to get a babel fish didn't
| seem as frustrating as it actually was.
|
| VNs and Twine style IF would be less frustrating, although a
| lot of those are probably not age appropriate for younger
| kids.
| 7thaccount wrote:
| With regards to twine, it's so easy to make and share a
| simple game that most parents could do it and tailor it for
| their kid.
| throwaway86530 wrote:
| That resonates with my experience, role playing with my 4
| year old daughter was a blast. Playing a character while
| being DM is a very good idea to pass hints and have more fun,
| I did not thought about this.
|
| > although it takes a bit out of me lol
|
| So much this. Preparation took time, and the game itself
| consumed a lot of my time and mental energy. Sadly, this came
| to a point were my daughter was highly motivated to play, but
| I was often not in the mood for that or had enough time to
| play, so our sessions became less and less frequent, to
| disappear entirely. I think it's been more than one year we
| did not play (she is 7 now).
|
| Nevertheless it was a great experience. All fathers should
| consider give it a try. For the record, I never really played
| this kind of game before, just witnessed some.
|
| We probably played more than 30 games. Toward the end it
| followed the same template where she was a witch (a gentle
| witch of course) that went from towns to towns to solve
| issues (generally related to magic). Most often she had to
| learn a new incantation along the way to help her in this
| adventure. Sometimes she also had to use previously learned
| incantations written on her notebook. That was a bit a trick
| on my part to get her read a bit. Drawing a basic plan of the
| city helped a bit, so toward the end we did that a lot.
|
| In one year or so, his brother will be old enough to play, so
| I might try again. Something that would help is pre-made
| campaigns (just in case someone knows some nice resources for
| that). As I am thinking about this, I guess generative IA can
| be leveraged for this purpose.
| olvy0 wrote:
| I'd recommend Chuk and the Arena [0], it's IF but link based
| rather than parser based (twine), and imo suitable for kids. I
| played it with my own kids and they liked it. Had to help them
| a bit with some of the more obscure puzzles, but overall it's
| fairly easy. Play it yourself before making up your mind
| though. It's free on the IF archive and itch.io. Personally I
| enjoyed it very much.
|
| And thanks for the Sorcery recommendation, I haven't played it
| myself and from reading about it in the past I wasn't sure if
| it's age appropriate.
|
| [0] https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=2fa5imp327k84ox
| ZeroGravitas wrote:
| Lost Pig might work for younger kids.
|
| It's a modern interactive fiction game:
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Pig
| anthk wrote:
| A bear's night out?
| dwheeler wrote:
| Some of these games are available via the Interactive Fiction
| Archive; it has many interactive fiction (text adventure) games:
| https://www.ifarchive.org/
| omoikane wrote:
| I thought it was odd that it listed only one Infocom game, only
| then did I realize there was company named _Inforcom_ that
| produced Russian games.
| beej71 wrote:
| Whoa--some of these games feature SLAG hints [1] which is a Perl
| script I wrote a zillion years ago to produce .z5 runnable
| Invisiclues files. I had no idea anyone had ever seen or used it.
| What a fun way to start a Sunday!
|
| [1]
| https://www.solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C615/Zork+I%3A+The+...
| Luc wrote:
| I'd like to play Zork e.a. while the map gets auto-generated in
| an adjacent window as I play.
|
| I'm pretty sure I've seen this auto-mapping software some years
| ago. Can anybody point me in the right direction?
|
| Edit: it's not in this list:
| https://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive/mapping-tools/
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