Ask HN: Great text based games to play?

Re:Ask HN: Great text based games to play? by wolverine876 on Saturday January 21, 2023 @04:17PM (#34470634)

Some great resources:

* Interactive Fiction Database (IFDB) https://ifdb.org/

* IFWiki https://www.ifwiki.org/

* Playfic https://playfic.com/

* The Interactive Fiction Competition https://ifcomp.org/

* XYZZY Awards http://xyzzyawards.org/

* electronic book review http://electronicbookreview.com/

* Electronic Literature Organization https://eliterature.org/

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Re:Ask HN: Great text based games to play? by prewett on Saturday January 21, 2023 @09:58PM (#34473757)

If you reference XYZZY, you need to suggest Colossal Cave! I think this is the text game that inspired all the others (and the only game I've ever played on VAX/VMS). You may be able to run it with `advent` on Linux. There used to be an Emacs command for it (maybe `M-x adventure`?), but I don't remember it and I can't seem to find it on Google. It looks like there's also a Python version at https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/python-adventure

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Re:Ask HN: Great text based games to play? by skuzzie on Sunday January 22, 2023 @01:23AM (#34474924)

I actually made a browser version of Colossal Cave! It does some extra basic NLP to make the experience better too. Give it a try: https://adventure.chalifoux.dev/

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