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Interactive Fiction @lemmy.ml
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Text Adventures: how Twine remade gaming

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endlessmirth @lemmy.ml

Spatterlight: native Cocoa (macOS) app that plays most parser-based interactive fiction files

  • VoiceOver support
  • Themes
  • Per-game settings
  • Download game info from Ifdb
  • Sounds, images, text colours
  • Glulxe autosave and autorestore-
Interactive Fiction @lemmy.ml
endlessmirth @lemmy.ml

Tristam Island - text adventure on 36 platforms: "made from the mold of Infocom; expect a large geography to explore"

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endlessmirth @lemmy.ml

The Adventures Of Indiana Jones In Wenceslas Square In Prague On January 16, 1989

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Interactive Fiction @lemmy.ml
endlessmirth @lemmy.ml

If you have emacs on your system, try running emacs -batch -l dunnet...

From WIkipedia :

The game starts out with the player standing at the end of a dirt road, but it turns to the surreal when players realize that they are actually walking around inside a Unix system, and teleporting themselves around the Arpanet.

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endlessmirth @lemmy.ml

Suikoden 2's Side Story Turns 20 Today, And So Does One of the Best Game Intros Ever Made

Happy 20th anniversary, Suikogaiden. You're a hyper-obscure text adventure with a hero named after a deep-fried pancake, but you let us observe Suikoden 2's beloved story and characters from another angle. You also gave us one of gaming's last great traditionally animated introductions.

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endlessmirth @lemmy.ml

Ozmoo, the Commodore 64 Text Adventure interpreter gets a new update - version 4.0 (Sept 20, 2020)

...a Z-machine interpreter for the Commodore 64 written by Johan Berntsson and Fredrik Ramsberg in 2018...

Release 4: Configurable cursor, loadscreen, bugfixes

cursor shape, colour and blinking configuration settings

Interactive Fiction @lemmy.ml
endlessmirth @lemmy.ml

This project comes across as a well-meaning satire of sites like discoversaintjohn and exploits the limitations of the Twine platform to provide a particularly memorable aesthetic.

Edited: clarity