Ask HN: Great text based games to play? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Great text based games to play?

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Post by mumblemumble » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 9:55 PM UTC

abnry wrote: post #47

Does anybody of a way to play text adventure games on your phone using text to speech and audio only? Last time I looked for something that did this I couldn't find anything. Seems like there should be a demand for it.

For Android there's an app called Audio IF that might do what you're looking for.

Re: Ask HN: Great text based games to play?

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Post by dawnerd » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 9:58 PM UTC

I’ve been looking for a text based game in the style of bootleggers. Those management style games are fun.

Re: Ask HN: Great text based games to play?

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Post by ghaff » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 9:59 PM UTC

sp332 wrote: post #2

Counterfeit Monkey by Emily Short. https://github.com/i7/counterfeit-monkey/releases Maps and cheat sheets are in the "Counterfeit Monkey.materials" folder. If you don't want to install a parser on your computer, you can play it online by putting the link to the .gblorb file into https://iplayif.com/ I.e. https://iplayif.com/?story=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fi7%2Fc... Modern games are generally going to be more appro…

My vast nostalgia for Infocom games--and the vast care and effort that went into those games--notwithstanding, they were written using 40 year old tech to run on machines that, at least initially, might have had a floppy disk and maybe 64K of memory (or less). Yes, they're more playable than a lot of graphics games of the time would be today, but they're from a different age.

Still dip into them every now and then though :-)

Re: Ask HN: Great text based games to play?

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Post by thom » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 10:00 PM UTC

telnet discworld.starturtle.net

Re: Ask HN: Great text based games to play?

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Post by zabzonk » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 10:02 PM UTC

none would be my opinion. i started playing and writing these kind of games in the early 80s, and IMHO none comes near to something like bg2 or morrowind, if a retro experience is what you want.

Re: Ask HN: Great text based games to play?

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Post by nathell » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 10:03 PM UTC

Anchorhead! My favourite game of all time.

Re: Ask HN: Great text based games to play?

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Post by tomstuart » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 10:08 PM UTC

cableshaft wrote: post #14

This is a fun one I played recently about shopping in a grocery store, called Aisle . You only have a single command you can give for the whole game, but there's a looot of them you can provide, and it gives you a different ending for each. Part of the fun is trying to figure out what you can say to find another ending. You can play it directly at the link below. Play: https://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifar…

…by Sam Barlow, now better-known for the live-action video games Her Story, Telling Lies and Immortality.

Re: Ask HN: Great text based games to play?

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Post by mongol » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 10:13 PM UTC

What about these games like Leisure Suit Larry? They were graphical but I think you typed the instructions?

Re: Ask HN: Great text based games to play?

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Post by jghn » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 10:16 PM UTC

quadcore wrote: post #44

I just asked chatGPT if it could act as game master for a text-based rpg and it says "sure" and proceeded to start the story telling. Amazing.

I did this a couple of weeks ago. At first it refused, saying it was just a language model or something like that. I said "go north" and it just started up a game.

I also tried to get it to play a game of Rogue for me w/ the old ascii graphics, but it held firm in its refusal on that one.

Re: Ask HN: Great text based games to play?

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Post by throwaway151492 » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 10:20 PM UTC

There is a great one still active right now. It’s a crime text based MMO called Torn City You can use my referral link

https://torn.com/1514924