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Making Text Based Games Resources

Discussion in 'Online Game Development' started by ogreman, May 11, 2015.

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    Ok, been looking into this for Ogre Adventures and for the fact that we may start having text-based games on the main site:). Here is some of the software I found so far:

    Inform 7

    TADS

    HUGO

    Adrift

    Quest

    Twine
     
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    For anybody who wants to make a game someday, text is a great place to start:).
     
    ogreman, May 13, 2015
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    Yea, may use these for Ogre Adventures and possible Ogre Wars:). Once we get started, could make even more.
     
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    What is the best program from that list ?
     
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    Honestly, it seems way overkill to use a piece of software just to create a text-based game (if it's purely text and nothing else). I can however understand the use of software to create point-and-click games, or even visual story games since those type of games not only require images alongside text, but text placement is important (kind of like comic books) and even other dynamics like interaction with the world and objects.

    Anyway, a simple scripting language will do the job just fine. If it's a web game, Javascript can easily do the trick, but honestly, you could create a text-based game with just HTML/CSS since those two languages alone are Turing-complete. Even Microsoft Powerpoint is great for making simple text-games. Really, a text-based game boils down to a bunch of branches or conditional statements.
     
    Snowy, Feb 28, 2024
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