Anyone over a certain age no doubt played text adventures on their computer. Screen
upon screen of descriptive text explaining where you are, usually
accompanied by some incredibly arcane syntax requiring you to figure out that the way past the 3 elves was "Use lamp on
oil on chair while juggling 3 cats".
Well, believe it or not, in this day and age of eye candy like Doom 3, Halo 2, Half-Life 2, and lots of other games
that sound more like sports scores, there is still a thriving text adventure scene. Every year, people compete to
create the best text adventures, and this years results are out. So go live it up old school!
Accompanying picture is from LOTR: Third Age. Mainly because a screenshot of some text would be mighty dull.
Reader Comments (2)
Posted: Dec 18th 2005 9:47PM (Unverified) said
"Pretty much announced"?
Since I don't play HL2, I wouldn't know. In fact reading it on here would probably be the first I knew:)
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Since I don't play HL2, I wouldn't know. In fact reading it on here would probably be the first I knew:)
Posted: Dec 18th 2005 9:47PM (Unverified) said
http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news
Plus, I for one think that a screenshot of text would have been much better.
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Plus, I for one think that a screenshot of text would have been much better.
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