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Text Adventures On Cell Phones

Posted by Hemos on from the you-have-been-killed-by-a-grue dept.

Sargent1 writes: "According to this article, a company called Bedouin wants to get people playing text adventures on cell phones and PDAs. Bedouin's going to get the games from this open-source-like community of authors that has been making the games and tools for free. The company is offering them royalties if they put their games under contract, and the authors aren't sure they want their games sold like that, since they're used to giving them away."

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  1. Smock my knickers! The resources are already here by Spatch · · Score: 5
    The Interactive Fiction archive at ftp.gmd.de/if-archive has a wide variety of interpreters for the Infocom z-machine standard, including some for the Palm already. You can play any Infocom story files you have around, or grab some new games from the IF Archive's extensive library. Most every game released by the IF community ends up here eventually. There's also a yearly Interactive Fiction competition open to all; it's a good way to get to know the new luminaries of the genre.

  2. I can see it now... by Randy+Rathbun · · Score: 5

    You are in a maze of twisty little passages all alike. There is a sign on the wall.
    >read sign

    "Pepsi. The choice of a new generation."
    >n

    You are in a maze of twisty little passages all alike. There is a sign on the wall. Your sword has begun glowing.
    >read sign

    "Nike. Just do it."
    >n

    Your have entered the lair of a troll who, besides smelling really bad, has impeccable fashion sense. He is wearing Bugle Boy jeans and an Old Navy performance fleece shirt.
    >quit

  3. Play all the old Infocom games on your palm pilot by Ricdude · · Score: 5

    You can get a Z-code (infocom's platform-independent bytecode) interpreter for your palm pilot at: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Way/2367/do
    wnload.htm

    It is free, works well on all the infocom games I've tried so far (Zork III, Planetfall, Infidel, Leather Goddesses of Phobos). Great way to pass time waiting for the dentist, car, etc...

    Activision sells an Infocom compilation CD (everything but Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy and Shogun) for about $20-$25. You can play HHGG on the web (or at least used to), and dig up the Z-code file in your cache. Many other entertaining games are available from the interactive fiction archives.

    --
    How's my programming? Call 1-800-DEV-NULL
  4. My graffiti needs to improve by georgeha · · Score: 5

    takc swokd

    >I don't understand takc

    take swokd

    > I see no swokd.

    lieht lamp

    >I don't understand lieht.

    George