Justin Goeres Posted October 6, 2007 Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 Did anyone else around here grow up on Text AdventuresInteractive Fiction like I did? If so, you and MC Frontalot might have something to talk about. Quote Link to comment
digital19 Posted October 7, 2007 Report Share Posted October 7, 2007 QUOTE(Justin Goeres @ Oct 5 2007, 02:28 PM) Did anyone else around here grow up on Text AdventuresInteractive Fiction like I did? If so, you and http://frontalot.com' target="_blank">MC Frontalot might have something to talk about. I feel totally dated now! I thought rap for my subculture didn't exist!!!! My first adventures in programming were parsing strings like "attack orc with old sword" for home made text games we'd come up with. Quote Link to comment
Justin Goeres Posted October 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2007 QUOTE(digital19 @ Oct 5 2007, 06:36 PM) My first adventures in programming were parsing strings like "attack orc with old sword" for home made text games we'd come up with. Same here. Ah, the good old C64. Interactive fiction taught me: What a credenza is, and that you can hide important items in one. The word petulant, as in "A petulant werewolf sits at the bar, morosely nursing his drink." The phrase "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." To love spoonerisms. That you literally cannot put toothpaste-like material back into its tube (this lesson occurred in the control room of Flood Control Dam Number 3 ) Techniques for finding my way through mazes of twisty passages, all alike . and so much more.... BTW, here is a nice scan of a really great hand-drawn map of Zork I that I ran across the other day. My old maps are long gone, and of course they weren't very good in the first place. Quote Link to comment
Yair Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 I was actually too young to really play text based adventures (I only saw a couple and never really played them), but I did play quite a few of the ones made by Sierra which had a graphical interface, but where your actions were still text based. By the way, at first I thought you were talking about the choose your adventure books. :laugh: Quote Link to comment
Justin Goeres Posted October 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 QUOTE(yen @ Oct 8 2007, 01:32 PM) Episode of Dinosaur Comics Hehe, Dinosaur Comics is my most favoritest webcomic! :thumbup: I even gave sexy exciting merchandise to my groomsmen at my wedding. Also, Dinosaur Comics in fact did an episode related to text adventure games back in 2005. Thus, the circle is complete! P.S. XKCD, which I think you've posted links to before, is my 2nd favorite. It seems there is some kind of synergy in our webcomic interests here.... Quote Link to comment
Yair Posted October 10, 2007 Report Share Posted October 10, 2007 QUOTE(Justin Goeres @ Oct 9 2007, 12:18 AM) Also, Dinosaur Comics in fact did an episode related to text adventure games back in 2005. Thus, the circle is complete!Not quite as complete as it is now. :laugh: or now, since you mentioned grues... This was really one of my favorites. P.S. I like xkcd more. It has a more complicated sense of humor. I wrote a couple of VIs to download all the comics from both those sites and then display them later so that I could go over them without having to go into a 1000 pages and read them when offline (e.g. on a long flight). P.P.S. :laugh: P.P.P.S. Since you like regular expressions so much: Quote Link to comment
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