inform7-ide VS QuestJS

For those looking for Linux packages instead of compiling themselves, there's a github build project of an earlier version this year https://github.com/ptomato/inform7-ide/actions/runs/19915523...

Inform 7 is a domain-specific language for creating parser-based works of interactive fiction (i.e. old-school "text adventure games"). It does the heavy lifting of parsing and maintaining the consistency of the world model for the programmer.

Inform 7 takes this to the extreme, allowing code such as "A distance is a kind of value. 5 miles specifies a distance."

Pure parser-based games have become niche, but they are still out there and, like others mentioned, have continued to evolve (see Inform 7). You no longer have to "guess the verb".

Neat. Have you ever seen Inform? http://inform7.com/ Might offer some inspiration on future features. It's a pretty cool language that's been around for a long time and has the same use case.

QuestJS is cool if you want to make a browser-based parser game. You will have to write some Javascript but there are lots of examples to imitate on the wiki page on Github.

The authors of Equity and Quest have released a JavaScript parser: https://github.com/ThePix/QuestJS

Recently, I've been wanting to work on a text adventure, partly due to my fondness of MOOs, and slight disappointment of some of their lacking features. If you're like me, and love making fun little games like this without having to spend too long getting the skeleton of everything set up, I'd highly recommend checking out Quest 6.