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Carnival of Gamers II
The second Carnival of Gamers has set up shop, with this one being themed around a text adventure. Once again, bloggers provide commentary on the games of the day. From the article: "> USE TAPE IN VCR
The tape clicks for a few minutes as the machine finds the timecoding, then begins playing Foton's Confessions of a Dangerous Guide, apparently taped from AFK Gamer."
with this one being themed around a text adventure.
>kill grue
-You can't kill the lurking grue!
>talk grue
-Talking to yourself is said to be a sign of impending mental collapse.
>go cave
You venure into the cave. It is very dark. The grue eats you. You are dead.
Play again? (Y/N)
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~ |rip/\/\aster /\/\onkey
Don't think we're gonna find that here!
What the hell kind of text adventure allows the USE verb?
Rob
Seriously, you need to try some of the newer text adventures which are being written today. There is some fastastic writing in text adventures these days.
I appreciate that the term "interactive fiction" maybe sounds like an attempt to make the genre more "worthy" (graphic novel?) but in some cases I think it is justified.
try spider and web or The Moonlit Tower. The second one is more of an example of what I'm talking about, although the first one is a fantastic example of the flexibility of interactive fiction over conventional fiction.
Grab a z-code interpreter for your plaform of choice (win32, linux, mac, palm, wince etc) and try some modern IF. Things have changed a LOT since the eighties, trust me. You rarely even have to "guess the verb" these days!
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