News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Wikipedia: The Text Adventure by amptorn on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @04:37PM (#14698119)
http://kevan.org/wikitext/United_States

"You can go nowhere from here."

Re:Wikipedia: The Text Adventure by sharemywin on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @08:09AM (#14701720)
Not sure how you implemented it but seems like you could take the coordinates and translate them into directions, convert the images using, then pull the first paragraph all on the fly.

look up the next closest coordiantes: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Freebase/...

convert images: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/236692/how-do-i-convert-...

Re:Wikipedia: The Text Adventure by xnzakg on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @06:12PM (#14698660)
You may want to disable taking the letter "a" (and some other ones like "is" etc).
Re:Wikipedia: The Text Adventure by cjauvin on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @04:14PM (#14698011)
Interesting idea! I had created a vaguely related experiment a while ago, breeding gamebook content with interactive fiction:

https://github.com/cjauvin/gamebook.js

Re:Wikipedia: The Text Adventure by tannhaeuser on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @04:35PM (#14698110)
Thanks for putting a smile on my face!