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Fniff

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What Text Adventure should I make?
« on: May 24, 2011, 10:28:05 am »

I need some help.

I really want to make a text adventure. I even have several avenues with which to succeed in this activity, all of which are stupidly easy to learn. But, all my ideas are insanely grand and pointless in the end. Every idea I have basically exceeds by current abilities. Could you guys bring me down to Earth and give me some non-completely impossible ideas?

Note: This may not come to fruit, but what the hey. Let's see how this goes.

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Re: What Text Adventure should I make?
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2011, 10:58:33 am »

Three random ideas:


1)  Portal 1.5, the text adventure game.  You play as the Dr. Ratman, schizophrenic scientist who helped make GladOS and is trying to find a way to revive Chell.

2)  You play as an ordinary office worker who has a performance review today.  The player must perform enough actions to gain a favorable review.  (Put on pants, brush teeth, file TPS reports, etc...).  None of these things are immediately obvious, and you don't find out if you forgot something until you are sitting at a review.

3)  "Tame a manticore".  Player must figure out how the correct way to not get eaten by a manticore.

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Re: What Text Adventure should I make?
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2011, 11:07:13 am »

1. Hmm... That sounds cool!

2. Eh... Sounds like a bit of coding is needed for that. Still, OK idea.

3. Now that is a cool idea. Simple, but could be very challenging for the player.

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Re: What Text Adventure should I make?
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2011, 04:27:49 pm »

instead of trying and failing to do this unaided, join this awesome community: http://www.epicsplosion.com/epicsploitation/adventures
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Re: What Text Adventure should I make?
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2011, 05:13:43 pm »

Ohhh.

That looks very awesome. And is. I just created one of the suggested ideas!

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Re: What Text Adventure should I make?
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2011, 08:06:26 am »

instead of trying and failing to do this unaided, join this awesome community: http://www.epicsplosion.com/epicsploitation/adventures

Armok you always have the goods.

Another venue: http://inform7.com/
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Re: What Text Adventure should I make?
« Reply #6 on: May 25, 2011, 12:57:26 pm »

... wait, it was my linking it in this thread that caused the recent influx of content? *Armok is a proud pony :D*
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Re: What Text Adventure should I make?
« Reply #7 on: May 25, 2011, 01:18:11 pm »

Gentlemen, we shall make a separate thread for this.

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Maybe?

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Re: What Text Adventure should I make?
« Reply #8 on: May 27, 2011, 05:02:05 am »

Holy heck, Inform7 is awesome! :D
Seriously, I'm glad I dowloaded it. Endless fun!
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