Ask HN: Great text based games to play?

Post by ghaff » Sun, Jan 22, 2023, 8:15 PM UTC

medwards666 wrote: post #144

poisonarena wrote: post #97

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I actually am from the box/manual generation and never heard it called 'feelies'.. I remember to register some games i would have to look up charts or keys in the manual, or on page numbers

IIRC 'feelies' was a term coined at Infocom by Brian Moriarty for the extra gewgaws that wound up in the boxes. I don't think the term was used much elsewhere in the industry, even though it did become part of the general gamer vernacular at the time.

Post by xwowsersx » Sun, Jan 22, 2023, 9:09 PM UTC

memalign wrote: post #133

xwowsersx wrote: post #95

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Counterfeit Monkey is great writing: To review, we're Alexandra now. I was Alex, before the synthesis. You were... >I don't know ...oh boy. Okay. Okay. I need you on form here. This is going to be hard if you don't remember being Andra. Not panicking. As far as I can tell, the operation was a success. We're meant to be one person now, unrecognizable to anyone who knew us before. hehe

Counterfeit Monkey is my all-time favorite. I like it so much, I made a mobile-friendly demo: https://memalign.github.io/m/counterfeitmonkey/index.html

Post by PenguinCoder » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 1:59 AM UTC

Lenis wrote: post #99

PenguinCoder wrote: post #4

Look for MUDs and MOOs[1] I've liked and played in the past a lot of these text based role playing games, especially when I was on a shittier dial up connection or remote satellite connections. I liked Aardwolf and Realms of Despair the most. I've played the IRE games like Achaea and Aetolia way too much. While those two definitely have a great lore and many active players, I have always loathed IREs pay to win "cred…

I would never recommend an Iron Realms game to someone for a couple of reasons. One being the pay to win aspects where players who pay real money to buy items get major advantages. Another being the amount of grinding required to level up. I'd recommend Akanbar instead. It has no pay to win features. Balance based real time combat loosely based on the old Avalon game (Achaea did not invent balance based mud combat, i…

Post by JauntTrooper » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 2:25 PM UTC

Freeboots wrote: post #112

JauntTrooper wrote: post #89

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It is online and still quite active! Drop into the discord and say hello. I spent many of my formative years on wotmud.

Is Trill still sitting at the Keep well, refusing to be useful?

Post by Sebguer » Tue, Jan 24, 2023, 5:45 AM UTC

stormcode wrote: post #76

Sebguer wrote: post #13

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Very sadly, TMS was shifted to an archive-only format a short while ago. End of an era. It looks like Mud Connect is dead, too. Not sure there are any aggregators still standing? :/

https://www.mudverse.com/ is actively maintained.