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I love text adventures. Collosal Cave Adventure and Zork are some of the coolest programs I've ever seen.

I've always wanted to try writing one and this article might have just inspired me to finally do that.

I recommend learning something like Inform 6, Inform 7, or TADS 3 if you want to make a text adventure.

It is as they say: if you want to make a game engine, make a game engine. But if you want to make a game, use an existing engine.

If you like the Zork "engine", learn Inform 7. If you like the Colossal Cave "engine" better, you might like to look at https://github.com/Quuxplusone/Advent/blob/master/ODWY0350/a... — it's very easy to remodel with your own rooms, items, verbs, and so on. (So is the original Fortran, but then you have to be able to compile Fortran...)

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