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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How to do branching dialogue in javascript
I'm making a very basic visual novel type of game in Javascript, I'm a beginner so I'm just doing this for fun and learning, and due to bad planning I have run into a bit of a problem when you get to ...
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2answers
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Using Editline for an in-game console
I'd like to add an in-game console to a C++ game that I am creating. Although rendering the console and parsing the commands I'm fine with, the text input and editing aspect (e.g. handling left / ...
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How to remove text from a command line box?
I'm currently writting a text based game and am currently having a slight issue where all of the text on the screen keeps going up and have had a couple of the testers complaining that it makes the ...
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2answers
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Simple browser game help [closed]
As my first "real" project, I'm working on a game that I intend to be single-player, web-based, and primarily in text. I need the ability to save choices the players make, and to have certain ...
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How can i fix my code so that it is a fully functioning text game? [closed]
This is my code. I have a beginner knowledge of C, and i have reached a dead end. I cant seem to continue my game. This piece of code runs flawlessly. I would really appreciate some help on going ...
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3answers
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How do you accommodate newbies while still creating depth in the design of light/dark systems for MUDs (or other text-based games)?
I've been pondering a redesign of our MUD's light/dark system. Our current system accommodates new players by simply not saddling them with being unable to see should they happen to wander outside of ...
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2answers
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How can I switch between scenarios in a text game?
I am making a text-based adventure game. How should I go about changing to another scene if the player wants to e.g. go to the house or walk down the road?
I am using Objective C, but C will work ...
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1answer
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Choose your own adventure console program
I'm new to programming and am writing a choose your own adventure game in C++ and am having trouble with exiting the program.
The way I have it set up is I am using functions as the different pages. ...
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How to combine multiple sprite sheets from multiple sources (Actionscript/Starling)
In starling, it's faster if you use BitmapText instead of traditional text. Which is well great except for one issue. Right now the sprite sheet I was making was with a single Fla. I just created the ...
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Distinguishing between multiple objects with the same name in a text based adventure game/interactive fiction
I'm in the middle of writing my own parser in Python. I've managed to make some simple commands, with simple prints to make sure they work. Since I intend there to be combat, I needed to write a ...
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1answer
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How can I store spell & items using a std::vector implementation?
I'm following along with a book from GameInstitute right now, and it's asking me to:
Allow the player to buy and carry healing potions and potions of
fireball. You can add an Item array (after ...
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Embed IF text parser in another game?
Are there any existing interactive fiction text parsing engines that I can embed in another game or application?
I'm looking to use something as a library. I can pass it the available objects and ...
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Text-Based and Window GUI Game [closed]
I am creating a simple window based game. The core features of this window will be a few text boxes, and dynamic buttons based on the players situation.
This will be the main extent. The text boxes ...
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2answers
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Passive skills and items
I'm making a small text browser RPG game using PHP, MySQL and Java Script (and jQuery). All the items are saved in the MySQL database.
Every now and then a character have to make a skill roll (Talk, ...
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1answer
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Does it make sense to build a text-based game Facebook app without using Facebook?
If I am building a text-based browser game, does it make sense to build it on you domain first, without using the Facebook API? I don't want to buy an SSL if I don't end up following through with ...
