#TextGame

2025-07-06

The date is official! 🎉🥳

After five years of building, dreaming, breaking, fixing, and re-dreaming again, Mystavaria will finally enter Open Alpha on August 7, 2025 — celebrating the five year anniversary since our #MUD project was born.

We are very excited (and also a little nervous) to share our world with you at last!

Full announcement details here: mystavaria.com/open_alpha/

#gamedev #IndieGame #RetroGaming #TextGame #NewGames #WorldBuilding #dream #evennia

2025-07-02

My merchant game is a text-based game where you play as a merchant, exploring a (probably, we'll see how it goes) randomly generated world. The current idea is it will be a resource and economy game, where you build your reputation, form connections with NPCs, make trade routes, and profit, of course. Expect random devlogs to come about the thoughts and struggles I have.

2025-06-17

Open alpha is coming soon and we are making all the preparations! Our website got a huge overhaul and is now full of information about the world, classes, skills, and a new player guide. Check it out at mystavaria.com and keep your eyes peeled for the alpha date coming soon!

#MUDs #MUD #gamedev #TextGame #RetroGaming #Evennia #Python #RPG #NewGames #InteractiveFiction #Mystavaria #WebDesign

2025-06-14

🎴 Brussels Vortex is a choice-based interactive fiction game.
It starts on the Grand-Place. A flash of light, a sound like thunder… and you're in 1927.
What happened? And more importantly: how do you get back?

🕹️ Playable online
📍 Fully explorable in #Brussels — or from your couch
🔐 Free. No login. No tracking.
🛠️ #Twine & #SugarCube
👉 brussels-vortex.com

#NewHere #InteractiveFiction #TwineGames #TimeTravel #TextGame #NarrativeGames #StoryGame #CYOA #BranchingNarrative #IF

A hand holds a smartphone in front of the Grand-Place in Brussels. On the phone screen, a scene from the game Brussels Vortex shows a woman in 1920s attire, with the same square in black and white behind her. The game text reads: “Grand-Place. The flower seller is still trembling with emotion...” The real-life square is bustling with tourists and an old-style vehicle.
2025-06-06

Tipical victorian house, around 1980.

2025-05-30

Hello Masto !

I'm desperately looking for a game that is at least ten years old, all text. It starts with "You're Nothing" then, after a click and a loading time, "You've got Life" and from there, a whole bunch of choices are offered to the player: earn money, knowledge, etc. Except that, little by little, the choices diminish. Does that ring a bell to anybody?

🔄 Please boost !

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Hello Masto !
Je cherche désespérément un jeu qui date d'au moins dix ans, tout en texte. Ça commence par "You're nothing" puis, suite à un clic et un temps de chargement "You've got Life" et à partir de là, tout un tas de choix s'offrent au joueur : gagner de l'argent, du savoir, etc. Sauf que petit à petit, les choix s'amenuisent. Ça vous dit quelque chose ?

🔄 Le partage est doux !

#TextGame #Help

2024-11-16

'cuz what kinda game would we be without an obvious money sink?!

#gamedev #retrogames #IndieGame #MUD #MUDs #textgame #python #Evennia #gambling #roulette #screenshotSaturday #Mystavaria

Playing a game of roulette in upcoming text-based MUD game, Mystavaria.

play roulette
You find a spot at a roulette table, greeted by a glint-eyed croupier.
A croupier calls out from behind a roulette table, "Place your bets!"

bet 5 on red
You place a bet of 5 coins on red.
The croupier accepts your 5 coins with a nod.

bet 30 on black
You place a bet of 30 coins on black.
The croupier grins as he takes your coins and says, "Let's see if luck's on your side.”

bet 7 on 13
You place a bet of 7 coins on number 13.
The croupier sweeps up your 7 coins and positions them before you, remarking, "Wager noted.”

A croupier sweeps a hand over a roulette table, "Final call for bets! Place any remaining wagers now!"

The croupier's hand glides across the table gathering the last bets as he announces, "All wagers are in, bets are now closed!"

The croupier reaches for the wheel and gives it a spin.

A metallic ring sounds as a ball darts through red, black, and green, prolonging its tumble across the roulette wheel.

The wheel slows and the ball tumbles into place, landing on 24 black!
BET LOST! You forfeit 5 coins from your bet on red.
BET WON! Your bet on black pays out 60 coins.
BET LOST! You forfeit 7 coins from your bet on number 13.

The croupier rakes in the remaining bets, clearing the table for a new game.
Vivienne Dunstanvivdunstan@mastodon.scot
2024-10-24

Back to #interactiveFiction #game #coding, in #Inform, an almost magical natural language / declarative / object oriented #programming language for traditional parser interactive fiction games. I'm in early stages of my next game, but getting stuck in. Luckily for flighty me I have 7 main sections of game that I can work on independently. So can flit about as much as want to, depending on which bit(s) I feel inspired to work on at a time. #GameDev #IndieGame #IndieGames #TextGame #TextAdventure

Vivienne Dunstanvivdunstan@mastodon.scot
2024-10-09

More #interactiveFiction game coding, working on my new game in #Inform7. Currently building the main structure, working forward through the early stages of game. Now making a start on Chapter 2 - I suspect there will be 7 chapters by the end. And just named a property a house name that I am doubtful may ever have been used in real life. But is totally appropriate in this specific case. #GameDev #IndieGame #IndieGames #Game #TextGame #TextAdventure #Inform

Vivienne Dunstanvivdunstan@mastodon.scot
2024-10-05

Found out when the IFComp 2024 results will be announced. In two weeks time, on a live stream on Twitch. I will be tuning in. I don't expect to rank highly, but will be happy if I improve on my showing last time I entered! Just delighted to have been able to finish another game to take part this year. And looking forward to seeing how everyone fares. ifcomp.org/about/schedule #IFComp #IFComp2024 #interactiveFiction #IndieGame #TextGame #GameDev #Twitch #Game #textAdventure

Vivienne Dunstanvivdunstan@mastodon.scot
2024-09-01

IFComp has opened for another year, with 67 different interactive fiction games entered. Ranging from traditional parser text adventure games through to choice based pieces and RPGs. A huge range of genres, themes and styles. Judging is open to all comers, and runs until October 15th. ifcomp.org #IFComp #IFComp2024 #InteractiveFiction #TextAdventure #IndieGames #IndieGame #TextGame #CreativeWriting #Games

2024-09-01

Shall we play a game?

"Bob's" Conscious Cave: The world's first Subgenius-themed anarchic federated human-ran co-op text choose your own adventure game

You wake up in a cave.
:bigfoot:
What do you do?

You choose your own adventure.
:cbhb0:

Just reply to this post or last one in thread to start!
:dmnt:

NOTE FROM PLATO'S CLOSET
○Any players are free to join in at any time to continue from the last play or earlier in the adventure

#BobsConCave #BCC #Subgenius #CYOA #TextGame

Sir Rochard 'Dock' BunsonSrRochardBunson@universeodon.com
2024-09-01

@MxVerda I get that, agree and that wasn't the intention. My friend stole the basis from a youtube & it was specifically talking about the opioid epidemic & Purdue pharma's role.

I'll see how I can change it to eliminate this unnecessary divergence.

Would you like to play a human operated asynchronous cooperative text adventure game only available on the #Fediverse?

You can reply to the OP or the most recent move.

I'm plannon incorporating "choose your own adventure" gameplay as well.

#CYOA #TextAdventure #TextGame #Game #Games

This is fine meme in plato's maga cave
2024-04-06

We made a little #justforfun #quiz for people to take and find out which of the major/class skills in #Mystavaria will match up best with your preferences!

take.quiz-maker.com/Q3GGD1J53

For those new to Mystavaria, we're an upcoming text-based #MUD, currently in development (yup! those still exist!). Our world is based on the collision of dreams and reality. We have 5 classes and over 20 skills to choose from, including unique magic like "Dreamweaving" and "Sky Prophecy," along with the tried and true mage's "Arcane" magic and "Blademastery" for the warriors out there!

#MUDs #gamedev #worldbuilding #fantasy #dreams #RPG #textgame #textadventure #retrogames

Pavel Zinovievpavelzinoviev
2023-11-20

So I've been thinking about small, text-based, story-driven game inside browser's console. Not even a game, but rather little interactive story.

Any thoughts? Or even some examples?

I've seen really cool one here: ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53
made by @jezzamon

2023-10-28

Cover art for my #GamesForBlindGamers jam. It's there to attract sighted players. How does it feel to you?

(Yes, it was kinda rushed.)

#IndieDev #GameDev #Accessibility #a11y #SciFi #TextGame #Roguelite

#GamesForBlindGamers text game update: you can now see monsters, and navigate from room to room. You can find the "stairs" down to the next level (not depicted). All that's missing is the core battles.

#GameDev #Accessibility #A11y #TextGame

2023-02-28

In 2015, I started making a text-based adventure game entirely coded in Bash and stopped in 2016.
This year, I've started working on it again and looking to have a demo out soon.

Are people still interested in games like this?

#bash #textgame #textbased #text-based #retrogaming

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