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A game which eschews the use of graphics and instead relies on text to descriptively illustrate the world. Often involves parsing text input from the player to determine action.

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I’m working on a text based and turn based roguelite. I want to have some way of requiring more skill than just mastery of the characters abilities. The dilemma I’m facing is that I’m not sure how to ...
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My text-based game will be a sims clone. I'm having problems though deciding what resources the player should start out with. I'm wanting to implement a form of the legacy challenge from the Sims 2, ...
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Basically, I'm trying to make a text-bases sims-like game. Obviously, making a text version of a graphical game while keeping it actually interesting to play is proving quite difficult. One of my ...
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I'm wanting to make a text-based game, it'll be about managing families like the sims games. I'm running into innumerable problems with such. One is how to make it turn-based. I know its technically ...
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I've been fascinated by this talk ever since I watched it: GDC Vault Jon Ingold (Inkle) - Narrative Sorcery: Coherent Storytelling in an Open World It proposes an implementation to simplify the ...
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I'm trying to make a Multi User Dungeon (MUD) game, and obviously a pre-requisite to that is a server. I've seen stuff like this: ...
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I have a client, and it's basically a potato client. What I mean by that is it's code is something like this: (This is a junky version of the code, just to make a point) ...
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I'm writing a Text-RPG and I have set up a ScrollRect where new paragraphs and choices are added and removed at every turn. This makes the size of the Content change constantly, which I handle with a ...
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So i plan on doing a text based adventure game in java. And right now iam planning my game. I came up with different types of player (exp. attacker, defender. etc) weapons, potions (health potions, ...
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I'm trying to view 3D objects in a terminal. Everything was looking good until I implemented lighting. I'm using shadow rays to determine where the object should be lit. Although it's working I don't ...
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I want my C program to update the console every second, and it was working fine until I tried to handle input. Now the program halts since it waits an input from the user. How can I do this? ...
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I would like to implement a simple game logic engine that is agnostic to the rendering system, but I don't know how to do that, really... so I would like to have advise and know the state of the art! ...
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I decided to learn how to make games during this quarantine. I am reading Mission Python, a book that teaches how to make games using python and pygame. I'm halfway through it, but the game only has ...
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I’m coding a text-based RPG and I have my controls working: I have a string checking what you write in against an array of if statements. It can get it right with ...
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I'm not very experienced with web languages, but I know a little bit of JavaScript. I'm working on creating a text-based rpg in HTML and need a way to modify dialogues for main story or quest ...
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I'm writing a simple text-based adventure in lua. The intent is the user clicks on the game.exe and it loads up the command prompt or whatever command shell they have and they play the game there. ...
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Started to write my own RL, and already fell into analysis (paralysis?) when implementing map class. My TILE class looks like: ...
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I am making a console based snake game. I am able to move the snake using grids that show up successively on the console. I want to animate the snake using always the same grid. ...
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I'm a beginner in coding and game-design also and try to make text-based adventure game, where player should move between rooms, fight with zombies and pick up weapons. Any help, namely tips and ...
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Building forward my text adventure i stumbled upon how to actually drive the actions that can be caused by dialogs. I wrote the dialogues and the logic around handling them already, but i'm missing a ...
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I'm trying to display a game in the console window using a screen buffer but cannot compile it. I have this simple code: ...
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I've been working on a text based RPG. It's pretty simple, I'm not very experienced with Python, or any other language for that matter. Edit: For context, I recently posted this question: Python 3: ...
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I've been making a text-based RPG in Python, and I'm a bit lost in transitioning from a console to a window. I'm not trying to do anything fancy (I think). I'd like my text to display normally, as it ...
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I enjoy playing a lot of text-based PBBGs (Persisent Browsing Based Games). A good example of the style of game I'm referring to is lyrania. I would like to work on developing this style game but have ...
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I'm writing a text based game, and I hit a snag with the user commands processing: so far I have a huge hardcoded ifelse block, and that does not seem good or scalable. With single word non session ...
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I need to create an item that the player decides to take and then use at a later time. Really I am looking for a command to open up a backpack that lists the items the player has collected. then the ...
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I'm making a post-apocalyptic text adventure in Unity. One of the gameplay features I've added is a quick time events on certain parts. Whether a part is a quick time event is defined inside the story ...
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I'm a newbie to game design and coding in general, and I've started working on a text-based adventure game project (like Zork) to work on my narrative writing skills while teaching myself Python. Any ...
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I'm a beginner in sdl2 and I'm trying to make a window, with a gui (where you can move a sprite around) and a CLI (a textbox where the game can return some text and the user can insert commands). Let'...
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I was looking into getting started with AI and machine learning. As an excuse I wanted to try and make a chatbot centred game. The idea would be to have the player stuck with a chatbot and only be ...
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I am new to c# game development and just start. I decided to start with the basics, Console Applications. I am try trying to recreate a game created by Lincoln Li and it's called Mr Sprinkle's Great ...
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I'm making a horror text adventure using Twine (snowman version, which uses HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, and Markdown). I wanted to know what the best (easiest) way is, you think, for creating a ...
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This is more like a mathematical problem, but I guess this is the best place to ask it. I am working on a PVP concept and I have the following problem. There is a "battle" between two players that ...
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I am currently in preparation on making a game. This game will be looks like Lifeline by 3 Minute Games, which is a story text-based game. My game will have the same concept with it. Where there will ...
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i tried to look up my question but didn't really find an answer that works for my situation. I'm using this unity asset called Dialoguer to create interactive dialogues. What I'm trying to do is to ...
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first im total noob about c# and mysql. Just trying to find which way is better. i believe your answers prevents me from losing plenty of time. Online game(not more than 50 users at pre-alpha. Not ...
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I am looking to create a text-based map in which a player could (hypothetically) move through out infinitely. I was thinking I could do this through class objects defining towns / dungeons / etc. and ...
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so ive checked this code 100 times for mistakes and everything checks out and should be working, I've tried everything I can think of but for some reason nothing works, this makes the movement super ...
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When I say states I mean like what you would call scenes in unity. As in each phase of the game. But in straight up code for a console application in C#. Example: Name select. Race Select. Store. ...
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Hope this is a proper question to ask here. If not, I'd appreciate somebody pointing me to other game developer communities. Since I am creating my game by myself it'd be nice to communicate with ...
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I'm making a text-based RPG in C++ just for fun, and in a way that I can keep adding to it and hopefully give it graphics one day, and I've got a lot of code for everything. My only problem is that I ...
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Outline I have the bones of a text-based RPG - the player can progress through a branching storyline and activate some simple events (recieivng/giving/trading items). As I am designing the battle ...
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I am trying to make a short text game with c++ to help me learn the language. I have made a version that basically displays texts, waits for an input, once the input is received it displays text, and ...
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Currently I have got a system set up where I split each sentence handed to me into it's baser parts and then compare each word against a list of known words. Once I have the verbs, adjectives and ...
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I could make strings in earlier Game maker versions, but it doesn't work in the Studio version when I try. The code I used: When Left Mouse Clicked on Password Bar: ...
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I am starting to code a browser game, I have a rudimentary chat set up, and would like to start creating the battle engine, I have a general idea of how I want it to play out, but I don't know where I ...
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I know most games store dialogue text in files, but I've also seen a few text-based games actually program the content (map, choices, possible player commands, story text) into the game code. I can ...
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I'm working on a Curses-based roguelike; it should (and does) work in both Linux and Windows (various flavours of each). Currently, I'm enforcing a hard requirement of "your terminal size must be <...
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I'm trying to create a 2D console game, where I have a player who can freely move around in a level (~map, but map is a reserved keyword) and interfere with other ...
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Apologies if this has been asked before, or if it is a bit too simple for this forum. I'm new to C++ and as one of my first projects I have decided to try a textual adventure. Step 1: the text parser. ...
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