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8.6 | 0.0 | |
4 months ago | over 1 year 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.
NXEngine
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Ask HN: Favourite Open Source Game?
I really enjoy Cave Story, It's a very cute metroidvania with a lot of soul.
https://github.com/EXL/NXEngine
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Made My Rust Remake Of Cave Story Engine Run On
On top of what u/alulalol said, there is an open source reimplementation of Cave Story, called NXEngine. Usually, you'd use it through the libretro port.
What are some alternatives?
asyncglk - AsyncGlk: A Typescript Glk library
doukutsupsx - port of Cave Story to the PlayStation, based on CSE2
extensions - Inform 7 extensions -- some may be ready for public use, others may be barely working experiments. Enjoy!
cave-story-md - A fan port of Cave Story for the Sega Mega Drive
if - Interactive Fiction technology: specifications and tests
oolite - The main Oolite repository.
Mudlet - ⚔️ A cross-platform, open source, and super fast MUD client with scripting in Lua
BOB_Src - Rowan's Battle of Britain source
motoflash2sh - Convert Motorola flashfile.xml to fastboot shell script
twrp_device_motorola_xpeng - Motorola Edge S30 (Motorola G200)
VVVVVV - The source code to VVVVVV! http://thelettervsixtim.es/
haiku - The Haiku operating system. (Pull requests will be ignored; patches may be sent to https://review.haiku-os.org).