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Sam Machkovech of Ars Technica called the game "a clever way to interpret the gushing fountain of data that is Wikipedia's API". [1] Stephanie Chan of GamesBeat called it "cold and alien" when she first played and saw descriptions of the places, but said that she later realized that one could further interact with locations, such as examining things and talking to people.
The following list of text-based games is not to be considered an authoritative, comprehensive listing of all such games; rather, it is intended to represent a wide range of game styles and genres presented using the text mode display and their evolution across a long period.
The game describes itself as a "political art experiment in text adventure form". It was submitted to the 2007 Interactive Fiction Art Show in the "Portrait" category. [1] None of the seven judges at the art show reported enjoying the game, and many criticised its gameplay, though certain aspects of the game were praised.
In Anastasia Salter's book on Adventure games, she calls 9:05 subversive and praises how it defies the player's expectations. [5] In the book Writing for Video Games, 9:05 was listed as the second-most notable interactive fiction game. [6] English as a second language (ESL) teachers and classes use 9:05 as a way to teach the English language.
Strictly speaking, text-based means employing an encoding system of characters designed to be printable as text data. [1]: 54 As most computers only read binary code, encoding formats are typically written in such, where a bit is the smallest unit of data that has two possible values and each combination of bits represents a byte.
The game was inspired by the original Adventure by Will Crowther. [3] The original game engine was written in 6502 assembly language. The game was then ported to Z80 for the Spectrum. The newer versions (for Commodore 64 and Spectrum) have an extended game. The game set out to add a level of realism through the addition of images, and complex ...
Wander is text adventure written by Peter Langston in 1974. It is one of the earliest text adventure video games in existence, predating Colossal Cave Adventure. [1] The game was originally coded in BASIC [2] on a mainframe computer with multiple databases to create the worlds that formed the game. [3]
The Dinosaur Game [1] (also known as the Chrome Dino) [2] is a browser game developed by Google and built into the Google Chrome web browser. The player guides a pixelated t-rex across a side-scrolling landscape, avoiding obstacles to achieve a higher score. The game was created by members of the Chrome UX team in 2014.