awesome fun, albeit lots of typos
Adventuron – Text Adventure Authoring in the Browser
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#12This is ridiculously awesome. But I can’t do graphics. Can we use AI to generate graphics based on the descriptions, and do it in pixel art style?
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#13Any recommendations for games made with this engine?
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#14Gruescript is a similar system, released a couple of months ago (though it doesn't have official support for graphics):
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#15This is ridiculously awesome. But I can’t do graphics. Can we use AI to generate graphics based on the descriptions, and do it in pixel art style?
we're not far away :)
https://twitter.com/nshepperd1/status/1446004530433323018
There's a notebook too, if you're curious
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#16Any recommendations for games made with this engine?
I can recommend ours:
https://okfeather.itch.io/feathery-christmas
It's a ~1/2 hour playthrough, with music and graphics, and the source is on github:
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would be great if there were files available for the Z-machine that played out the original Edward Packard CYOA series, like Through The Black Hole, e.g.
They're not available for sale, but you can find them all as clickable epubs. (Any device that can run a Z-machine can run an epub reader just as easily.)
Any modern device will run both, but Infocom's Z-machine ran on old 8-bit home computers. Even if you ignore EPUB's image support (which includes the complicated SVG format), EPUB is zipped XHTML+CSS. I'd be very surprised if you could fit a parser and renderer for all that in the limited RAM they had available.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're not available for sale, but you can find them all as clickable epubs. (Any device that can run a Z-machine can run an epub reader just as easily.)
Any modern device will run both, but Infocom's Z-machine ran on old 8-bit home computers. Even if you ignore EPUB's image support (which includes the complicated SVG format), EPUB is zipped XHTML+CSS. I'd be very surprised if you could fit a parser and renderer for all that in the limited RAM they had available.
V3 games ran on 8 bit computers, but v5 games (most of modern ones) only run well under a 16 bit one.
As for epubs, netbsd runs on Amiga and Classic Mac, and if lynx and unzip work, so do epub files with a crappy script.
It's 2020 and an RPI or an ESP32 are dirt cheap, and you can get a 486 machine even for free.
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#19This is ridiculously awesome. But I can’t do graphics. Can we use AI to generate graphics based on the descriptions, and do it in pixel art style?
Can I give an AI a bunch of drawings and it will make a text adventure out of it?
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#20It's a shame you can't self-host the editor. My main use-case for doing this was to occupy me when I was without internet.