🤖💡 "Oh, let's take #Claude, an #AI who can barely string together a coherent thought, and make it play text adventures. Surely, this will lead to groundbreaking cognitive advancements, or at least a good laugh. 🙄"
https://borretti.me/article/letting-claude-play-text-adventures #TextAdventures #Humor #CognitiveAdvancements #TechInnovation #HackerNews #ngated

Letting Claude Play Text Adventures

https://borretti.me/article/letting-claude-play-text-adventures

#HackerNews #Letting #Claude #Play #Text #Adventures #AI #Gaming #TextAdventures #Claude #Borretti

After a few months of inactivity on my blog (which has happened before), I have written a medium-sized article about how the term "interactive fiction" has changed over the years.

https://www.vintrospektiv.de/index.php/2026/01/quo-vadis-interactive-fiction/ #interactivefiction #vintrospektiv #textadventures #infocom #cyoa

Gnome Ranger (Level 9, 1987) #Amiga #Commodore #TextAdventures #ClassicVideogames

Link: https://www.lemonamiga.com/game/gnome-ranger

Game Studies Study Buddies #89 on Get Lamp

https://rangedtouch.com/2025/12/31/89-get-lamp/

#textadventures #infocom #interactivefiction

Today's story starts all the way in the 17th c. and winds its way up to the rowdy days of British VIC-20 computing, and ended up being an epic enough tale I've had to split into two parts. (Next part likely Friday!)

Includes a history of the first digital calculator!

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/12/23/secret-mission-1983/

#retrogaming #history #videogames #textadventures #interactivefiction #c64 #vic20 #commodore #tech #calculator

I'm not much of a gamer, but when I do if it's not #TextAdventures, it's probably #HalfLife.

#sinclairuser tells in 1985 the story of St. Bride's, a irish school for young ladies but also a software house that published text adventures

#zxspectrum #textadventures #retrogamimg

#Gremlins is a #Christmas movie and I stand by that even though I mostly base that on my memories of the picturebook. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bjpufa66d36itb5rzn3p6vrn/post/3m7ftjw2osk2p #TextAdventures #InteractiveFiction #RetroComputing

#sinclairuser visits Delta 4 Software, home of many cool text adventures, to interview Fergus Mc Neill & mates

#zxspectrum #retrogaming #textadventures

Spectrum Computing user 8BitAG has posted this link:

https://github.com/MikeTheTechie/Level9-Public

It's an archive of Mike Austin, from legendary Level 9 company, that includes the A-Code system manual and source code for both the games and the A-Code engine

#zxspectrum #textadventures #retrogaming

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rubereaglenest/115570013216523909

Hey! #InteractiveFiction #Twine and #TextAdventures!

Just 3 days to finish voting #ECTOCOMP2025 games!!!

😎 🧐 🎃 👇

Zork I-III now under MIT license! https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source #zork #textadventures #retrogaming

RE: https://peoplemaking.games/@passerine/115549968570659521

Hey! #InteractiveFiction Mastodon, #Twine and #TextAdventures!

We need judges!!!

Go, play #ECTOCOMP2025 games this year!

They are amazingly creepy!

#Halloween #November #Horror #Supernatural #Indiegame

👇 👻 👹 🎃

inladung zum #InteractiveFiction #Wettbewerb „#IF Grand Prix 2026“ #ifGP26

https://if-forum.org/topic.php?id=1361

https://ifwizz.de/grand-prix.html

Frühjahr 2026: 16. Wettbewerb für #Textspiele, #Textadventures, interaktive #Literatur! Absichtserklärung 1.3., Abstimmung ab 2.4.–1.5., Ergebnis 2.5.!

YOU ARE LIKELY TO BE EATEN BY A GRUE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nigRT2KmCE

#TextAdventures #Zork #Music #Halloween

#sinclairuser report from 1985 on some #textadventures to play in autumn

#zxspectrum #retrogaming

🕹️✨ Ah yes, the "greatness" of text adventures: where your wildest dreams come true through a series of poorly typed commands and endless #frustration. 🚪➡️ If you've ever wanted to experience the #freedom of being totally lost with zero graphics to guide you, this article is your treasure map. 🗺️🤔
https://entropicthoughts.com/the-greatness-of-text-adventures #textadventures #gaming #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated

The Greatness of Text Adventures

https://entropicthoughts.com/the-greatness-of-text-adventures

#HackerNews #TextAdventures #Gaming #Nostalgia #InteractiveFiction #Storytelling #RetroGames

Question for anyone who has a copy of Suspended:

Does anyone else have this particular document in their box? It is in mine, but I don't see it on any of the "documentation" sites

#rretrogaming #infocom #textadventures #interactivefiction #videogames