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Text adventure ported to social media
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#2Amazing. Hyperlinks.
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#3I'm loving the revival of text adventures, especially in the GenAI area (less so in social media, but, still). I used to play Zork a lot (lol in the 2000s though, on linux and it was the coolest thing).
I've made a series of sci-fi gen-ai text adventure games, https://cosmictrip.space/gameannouncement where GPT is the game and DALL-E can visualize for you, inspired by other similar projects. (the game is a bit buggy if you refresh, and signups limited to gmail as I had to combat some LLM-abuse spam (also why there is no free-form text box right now, as there SHOULD BE))
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#4That’s art, bravo
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#5I’ve been wanting to write a Mastodon/Twitter twine compiler that would take an existing Twine story and compile it to a list of posts.
https://github.com/captn3m0/ideas#twitter-adventure-maker
The primary difficulty is in flattening the state, which twine supports (apple=true, key=false in this story) but if it’s not too many variables might work out.
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#6Interestingly, when I did something similar on Twitter a few years ago, I received a very polite email from the people who owned the trademark to "Choose Your Own Adventure" requesting that I not use that specific phrase.
As far as I could tell, they didn't actually have the ™ for computer games at the time. But I can understand how they didn't want to become a genetic brand like Kleenex or Hoover.
(https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2015/01/writing-a-choose-your-own-a...)
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#7Interestingly, when I did something similar on Twitter a few years ago, I received a very polite email from the people who owned the trademark to "Choose Your Own Adventure" requesting that I not use that specific phrase. As far as I could tell, they didn't actually have the ™ for computer games at the time. But I can understand how they didn't want to become a genetic brand like Kleenex or Hoover. ( https://shkspr.m…
Depending on jurisdiction, technically, a trade mark ™ is established by use, for the tort of passing off. A registered trademark uses the encircled R symbol: ®
You may be thinking of copyright, which at one time did not explicitly include computer programs as protected works, depending on jurisdiction.
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#8Interestingly, when I did something similar on Twitter a few years ago, I received a very polite email from the people who owned the trademark to "Choose Your Own Adventure" requesting that I not use that specific phrase. As far as I could tell, they didn't actually have the ™ for computer games at the time. But I can understand how they didn't want to become a genetic brand like Kleenex or Hoover. ( https://shkspr.m…
AIUI, the book "20 Goto 10" also avoids referring to itself as CYOA, despite its similarities for the same legal reason.
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#9I'm loving the revival of text adventures, especially in the GenAI area (less so in social media, but, still). I used to play Zork a lot (lol in the 2000s though, on linux and it was the coolest thing). I've made a series of sci-fi gen-ai text adventure games, https://cosmictrip.space/gameannouncement where GPT is the game and DALL-E can visualize for you, inspired by other similar projects. (the game is a bit buggy…
I played with a version where the AI creates the text and the options, but trying to add a new mechanic (you have to select, in the text, two words that unlock each option).
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#10I’ve been wanting to write a Mastodon/Twitter twine compiler that would take an existing Twine story and compile it to a list of posts. https://github.com/captn3m0/ideas#twitter-adventure-maker The primary difficulty is in flattening the state, which twine supports (apple=true, key=false in this story) but if it’s not too many variables might work out.
I'm new to this, are there Twine stories somewhere that I can download? Do you know? Does Twine "play" them? Sorry, these questions are very rudimentary.