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counterfeit-monkey | Mudlet | |
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2 | 14 | |
157 | 699 | |
2.5% | 2.3% | |
8.6 | 9.3 | |
4 months ago | 4 days ago | |
Inform 7 | C++ | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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counterfeit-monkey
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Ask HN: Great text based games to play?
Counterfeit Monkey by Emily Short. https://github.com/i7/counterfeit-monkey/releases
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 approachable than old ones. Tastes have changed considerably. In the days when you couldn't pull up a walkthrough in a few seconds, taking days to think of the next step was part of the fun, and just getting permanently stuck at some point was fairly common. Also, letting the player keep going even after they have done something to make the game unwinnable is now considered very uncool. Navigation is much less tedious these days as well, fast travel for example, although the exact mechanics depend on the game.
And that's not mentioning the amount of CPU and RAM available, not only for the game's runtime, but also for tools like I7 (which was used to write Counterfeit Monkey).
For an quicker introduction to modern "interactive fiction", as it's called these days, check out competition entries. https://intfiction.org/c/competitions/7 These are generally written in a shorter amount of time and the results are quicker to play through.
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Ask HN: Favourite Open Source Game?
Various old skool text adventures:
If you are already experienced with them then "Counterfeit Monkey" takes it to the next level with a great twist based on anagram-like magic:
> Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship.
> Since then, Atlantis has been the world's greatest center for linguistic manipulation, designing letter inserters, word synthesizers, the diminutive affixer, and a host of other tools for converting one thing to another. Inventors worldwide pay heavily for that technology, which is where a smuggler and industrial espionage agent such as yourself can really clean up.
> Unfortunately, the Bureau of Orthography has taken a serious interest in your activities lately. Your face has been recorded and your cover is blown.
> Your remaining assets: about eight more hours of a national holiday that's spreading the police thin; the most inconvenient damn disguise you've ever worn in your life; and one full-alphabet letter remover.
> Good luck getting off the island.
https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=aearuuxv83plclpl
https://github.com/i7/counterfeit-monkey
If you're new to the genre then "Lost Pig" is a good place to start, though technically it's licence (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0) is not open source.
Mudlet
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Lessons from Open-Source Game Projects
Mudlet - Client to connect to a MUD server, scriptable. C++, Lua
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Path to becoming a desktop applications software developer?
Mudlet is a crossplatform (Windows, macOS, Linux) C++ application that embeds Lua - could be a good way to get started with this kind of development in a safe environment and get some experience under your sleeve.
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Looking for projects to contribute to
Mudlet uses C++ and Qt, it's a popular project in a niche area: MUD gaming!
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Mudlet’s (FOSS text games client) new $1,000 bounty program!
I can't help with Fedora repos but there is flatpak support available for testing.
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Ask HN: Great text based games to play?
Check out the list on Mudlet (https://mudlet.org), it's a FOSS desktop app for playing online test games you describe. Comes with a selection of good games pre -configured.
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MUDs with Graphical Assistance
Try out the StickMUD UI via Mudlet client (mudlet.org) from the list of default games.
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FOSS website delisted from DDG, why?
My website for a FOSS application, https://mudlet.org has been completely delisted from DDG: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Amudlet.org&atb=v315-1&ia=web
- Mudlet testing client released for Windows, Linux and OSX, works with NVDA, JAWS, Microsoft Narrator, Orca and Apple's Voiceover.
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Mudlet Connection Help?
Try turning off MCCP compression in the Mudlet settings menu as that seems to work for some. You can read more here: https://github.com/Mudlet/Mudlet/issues/3530 and add your experience.
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Client Inquiries - Materia Magica
You can download the latest AppImage from mudlet.org, maybe that will work for you.
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cathook - Training Software for the game Team Fortress 2
if - Interactive Fiction technology: specifications and tests
RIP - Free,Open-Source,Cross-platform agent and Post-exploiton tool written in Golang and C++.
Primes - Prime Number Projects in C#/C++/Python
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