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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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