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Classic Browser Adventuring Goes Open Source

Posted by simoniker on from the rock-your-kings-quest-some-more dept.

Conrad Sheldon writes "Just a few days after the one year anniversary of its launch, 'adventure gaming engine in a browser' Good Old Adventures has gone open source. This means that you can now create your very own browser-running Sierra On-Line format AGI games, and incorporate them into your web site - it works with the alternative SCI-formatted games as well. With some more work on the open source code by developers, perhaps it will even support SCUMM and other engines some day. The possibilities are virtually endless. Let the adventures begin..." We previously featured this project earlier last year, and it should be noted the source "does not come with the multiplayer libraries, but it is the fully playable... singleplayer version of what is online here."

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  1. This reminds me... by scumbucket · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Of the practice of sneaking text based games in
    daemons. I think either classic adventure or mansion was on one of the mindspring DNS servers
    for a while. You could play with nslookup. It went along the lines of:

    nslookup www.blah.com 207.69.188.186 forward

    and you'd get your request back and at the bottom of it would be something like:

    You enter a room and a loud clear voice says "ritnew is a charming word" or whatever your next move was. I'd love to find another one of these.

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  2. No KQ1? by ArcticPuppy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Thanks to Kings Quest I was way ahead of my class in english lessons. I remember sitting for hours with a norwegian-english dictionary trying out different combinations of look and get .

  3. Oooooh the Fun by lake2112 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are standing in an open field. You can see a solitary tree with a solitary apples hanging from it. > Get Apple Command not recognized >Take Apple Command not recognized >Pick Apple You take the red, tasty apple from the tree. > Eat Apple The apple is poisoned you are dead. You will automatically be transported to a point you were at hours ago.

    1. Re:Oooooh the Fun by Lightwarrior · · Score: 4, Funny

      The moral of the story is, of course, to never trust Apple. (ha?)

      -lw

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  4. You can't get ye flask! by American+AC+in+Paris · · Score: 3, Funny
    Obvious exits are NORTH, SOUTH, and DENNIS.

    What wouldst thou deau?
    >

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    1. Re:You can't get ye flask! by Overdrive_SS · · Score: 2, Funny

      >Get ye flask

      Ye can not get ye flask.

      And all you can do is sit there wondering why in the world ye can not get ye flask, because the game surely isn't going to tell you.

  5. doesn't work in mozilla 1.6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    I get 10 javascript warnings and two syntax errors!!

  6. Use it for 404 by Beolach · · Score: 4, Informative

    My favorite 404 Page Not Found error is a online PHP version of Zork.

    More games as 404 errors here.

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  7. Good Old Adventures by TurnerK12 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I remember when this first came out last February. Everyone was trying to get in, but I guess we overloaded the server. I finally got a chance to try it out though. It was like a glorified chat room. There wasn't much point to walking around since you couldn't do anything in the rooms. An inventory system, and a few quests would of been nice. It had a lot of potential though. Too bad it didn't last. Perhaps somebody will do something great with the source code.
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