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Loyalists Preserve Past Through Text-Only Games
Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "'You are at the edge of a clearing with an impressive view of the mountains. A trail splits off toward some standing stones to the southwest, while the main road emerges from the forest to the east and continues westward down the hill, via a series of switchbacks.' So begins 'A New Life' (downloadable from here), part of a group of game hobbyists going back to text-only basics. They try to keep the genre alive by posting their titles online for free and meeting in chat rooms dedicated to the craft, the Wall Street Journal Online reports. 'Console games are demanding,' says Mike Snyder, a 33-year-old computer programmer in Wichita, Kan. 'With text games, you can sit there at the prompt, go make a sandwich, then come back and play more.'"
I have been eaten by a grue :(
...Rob
The American Dream isn't an SUV and a house in the suburbs; it's Don't Tread On Me.
You wake up.
> get up
You can't get up, it's dark.
> turn on light
You turn on the lamp.
> get up
You can't get up. You've got a headache from that hangover.
> look in pockets
While you look in pockets, your house is demolished by a bulldozer.
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#$@@#$! That's the third time in a row! !@#%!#@ text games!
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
...all alike.
QUAKE II
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West of steaming pit of hell
You are standing in an open room west of a steaming pit of hell leading down.
There is a gun here.
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RageTech
They'll produce wonderful text-based games, and people from the cities of MMORPG and FPS will travel out to them to buy blankets and marvel at their monochrome screens.
You have two hands and one brain, so always code twice as much as you think!
You have to realize, though, that we only use words like "xyzzy," "zorkmid," and "blorple" on formal occasions.
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That's part of the beauty of Everquest. You don't have to play it at all and it's still just as interesting.
http://publicvoidlife.blogspot.com
Computer is on /.
> Surf to
Page Loads - no recent stories
> Reload 7,512 times
A new story pops up
> Click on the story
Nothing to see here - move along
> Reload 389 times
You see the new story
> Write pithy First Post comment - hit Submit
Comment accepted - 8/8
> Reload page
Your comment is gibberish because you didn't preview it
> Reload page again
Comment moderated to -1 as Troll
> Change race to Elf
Change not accepted - you are now permanently cursed as a Troll.
'With text games, you can sit there at the prompt, go make a sandwich, then come back
Must have been written in Java then.
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Please tell me that when you first met a native English-speaker, you did not greet them with 'Hello sailor'...
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
>_
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Was the main exercise that tought me English pretty early.
You must be a lot of fun around the office.
"Hey, which way is it to the bathroom in this building?"
"Get up; go left; y; y; door; light; use stall."
"Uh... thanks."
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Oh man, I have to know how to read to play these games!? That doesn't sound like much fun at all.