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Re:The Interactive Fiction Archive (2019) by shmerl on Thursday November 25, 2021 @01:19AM (#29338703)
You can probably start with simple text console program that doesn't need any graphics.

Second step can be ASCII style graphics added to it.

Then you can do already something like The Hobbit with 2D graphical backgrounds.

I don't think you need Unity or the like for any of it.

It would probably be akin to writing a shell interpreter for the input at least.

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Re:The Interactive Fiction Archive (2019) by anthk on Thursday November 25, 2021 @09:56AM (#29341851)
>It would probably be akin to writing a shell interpreter for the input at least.

Nah, Inform6 and the library gives you all: the parser, interpreter, prompt, verbos and objects. And it's free as in freedom.

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