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Yet another text game
« on: March 20, 2022, 06:27:42 am »

I'm making yet another game and this time it's actually playable. I name it Daily Adventure 2022. It is a plain text adventure, and every turn is one day. The player puts in the commands and let it run, and then checks the events after one in-game day passed. It's designed to be multi-player, sort of like a MUD (I got a lot of inspirations from BatMUD and Cantr II).

Now I'm play-testing it. First we start the game. And this is what we see.

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Like I said, it's pure and plain text. We have our new adventurer, Tom, in a diorite salon. Let's walk around and see what we can do.

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Well, it should start at day 1 but I accidentally double-hit Enter so we wasted the first day and now it's day 2... Anyway we can see Tom walking around...

After leaving the salon, we can see the land around us. We're at Dypsa, the valuable camp. And there's a persimmon tree...

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There's a sprite over there. We'll probably come back later and fight it.

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And a pixie standing under a fir.

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So we spent the day walking around and discovered that we're in a land of sprite, pixie, fairy, and fruit trees.

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And here's the summary. Look how we start as an aspiring brawler! Tomorrow we'll train brawling skill on one of the pixies and probably explore the areas around us.
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Re: Yet another text game
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2022, 08:17:07 am »

Now I'm play-testing it. First we start the game. And this is what we see.

[...]
...can I suggest the [code] tag for bits that are sensitive to whitespace?

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...though that looks a bit messy, still, so might need tweaking (back?) for spacing. Not sure if it's just area-features or supposed to depict a boundary, on first-sight. Might be right if it's the former.


And/or the [tt]-tag for fixed-width... Though your Courier font specification doubtless works on your platform, it seems insufficient upon mine:
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Otherwise, consider this an opportunistic PTW, as well as a posting format suggestion that I could as easily have PMed you. ;)
« Last Edit: March 20, 2022, 08:18:51 am by Starver »
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Re: Yet another text game
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2022, 11:16:58 am »

Thanks for mentioning teletype. This tag is exactly what I wanted but didn't find out! The pipes are trees. I now use "." for ground (instead of space). Maybe it'll look better this way.

The last turn was day 2 and now it's day 3. There's a brownie in the northeast so we go to fight it.

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Tom hits brownie.

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Brownie misses every blow and Tom trains his fighting skill.

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Though more skilled, Tom never lands another hit for the whole day. Tomorrow we'll probably let Tom finish those 3 blows and then move on.
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Re: Yet another text game
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2022, 12:34:39 am »

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Tom finished the 3 blows and went north.

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Tom spent this day walking around the land north to Dypsa, doing nothing interesting.


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Re: Yet another text game
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2022, 01:29:53 am »

Go SE!

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Re: Yet another text game
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2022, 02:40:35 am »

So I canceled the 2 residual commands and turned Tom to southeast, marching to Jorza, the cursed town.

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Here we get a glimpse of a tiger hiding under a holly tree.

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The tiger walks out from under the tree and follows Tom as he passes by.

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Tiger stops following as Tom enters the territory of Jorza.

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Here we are, arriving in Jorza at the end of day 5.
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Re: Yet another text game
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2022, 05:38:23 am »

Tom walks around, trying to find out what's the curse.

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Here we see Tueau the poet.

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More elves.

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Here we see a pot in the east. We'll pick it up later. We'll also probably eat some mangoes here.

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And this is Tom's first day in Jorza.
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Re: Yet another text game
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2022, 04:40:44 am »

Tom goes to the mango tree.

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And begins to pick mangoes.

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And becomes stronger.

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Tom spends day 7 eating mangoes.


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Re: Yet another text game
« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2022, 01:03:47 am »

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Tom keeps eating mangoes. Note that the elf that was at the northeast corner disappeared. He probably has gone under the tree, or has moved to the same grid as the other elf there.
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Re: Yet another text game
« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2022, 09:03:35 pm »

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Still eating mangoes. At hour 4 the tree grows more fruits.
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Re: Yet another text game
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2022, 12:35:00 am »

Today Tom is gonna pick up that pot and hit the elf with it.
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Pot got.

Walking to the elf. However, note that just when Tom picked up the pot, at hour 3, the "e" moved south.
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No elf here.

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And this is what happened in day 10.

So far, this game may look quite boring and slow, which is actually how I want it to be played. It is meant to be a casual and idle game, and I'd keep it low-paced and make no rush.
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Re: Yet another text game
« Reply #11 on: March 28, 2022, 03:21:23 am »

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Tom walks to the elf poet.

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Tom attacks the elf and dies in the first round!

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This ends the 11 days adventure of Tom. Since I plan to make this game multiplayer, the world will stay persistent after Tom dies. Tomorrow I'll make another character.
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Re: Yet another text game
« Reply #12 on: March 29, 2022, 03:07:52 am »

Today I genned a new character: Zoe. And I sent Zoe to go west and investigate Xuvjos.
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Walking among those humans that can one-shot her, Zoe attacks no one.
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Re: Yet another text game
« Reply #13 on: March 30, 2022, 03:54:42 am »

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Day 13, eating apples.
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Re: Yet another text game
« Reply #14 on: April 04, 2022, 04:51:29 am »

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More apples.
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