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Secret post!

Well, I was taking the month off, but I got engrossed with the Japanese game Mystery House 2, a game I'd already beaten for MSX. I made some progress on the NEC PC-6001 version. The game is radically different. I delve into why.

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/06/14/mystery-house-ii-alternate-realities/

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #history #japan #japanese

There was a Copilot mini-hackathon at the office today. With a theme of interacting with the real world.

But the *real* real world is messy and fickle. So I decided to burn through some tokens having Copilot interact with a *fake* real world.

Humankind has always hated playing video games. So now Copilot can play a 30 year old game for you, while you go fill out your TPS reports

#textAdventure #interactiveFiction #modelContextProtocol #copilot #llm #mcp #emacs #dunnet

It is a screenshot of a Copilot Chat window in Visual Studio Code. The agent is interacting with a Model Context Protocol server that is running the Emacs dunnet text adventure game. The agent is sending commands such as "take shovel" and "go east" and the game is returning descriptions of the world such as "E/W Dirt road
You are on the continuation of a dirt road. There are more trees on
both sides of you. The road continues to the east and west.
There is a large boulder here.
What is your next command?"
The agent has been instructed to explain its reasoning, so it writes things like "I have arrived at a continuation of the dirt road, with trees on both sides. The road extends east and west, and there is a large boulder here.

I will examine the boulder to see if it holds any clues or items. Let me send the command: 'look boulder'."

The screenshot cuts off before the user gives the agent permission to run the "look ground" command

☕ sips tea dramatically
Today I gave my brave little Rust adventurer a proper world to wander through... then I casually dropped a goblin into the hallway like it was Tuesday. 🧌✨

Now they can move, fight, and probably survive — assuming they brought snacks. Next up: loot, glorious loot.
🦀 #RustLang #GameDev #buildinpublic #TextAdventure #TeaPoweredCoding

Just given Ship of Doom an extra layer of polish, ready to re-use the engine for another adventure (tbc). #zxspectrum #textadventure

Next on All the Adventures:

Come for a tale that leads from 1949 all the way to 1981, with passionate developers trying to bring computers to the masses, and an obscure game called Tiny Adventure, a complete "outsider work" in computer game history.

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/06/04/tiny-adventure-1981/

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #retrocomputing #textadventure #interactivefiction #history #rca

paper tape of Altair Basic signed by Bill gates and Paul Allen

Next on the docket I have an adventure game with a complicated multi-part history dating back to 1949 and a rare emulator. The game itself feels like it dropped from a different universe.

Post by Friday I'm guessing? Preview screenshot.

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #interactivefiction #textadventure #history

MITS MOBILE Computer Caravan

Welcome to the ALTAIR Short Course

If you appreciated #SilkDust, the game that I recently released as an open source project, you may also appreciate the original music I wrote for it. Here is a video of a #RevoxB77 reel to reel tape recorder playing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI_uF-8gJH4 #TextAdventure #music #mastoart #reel2reel #opensource #noai #indie

wherein I tell the story of Dave Carlos, teacher turned writer turned marketer, and his early obscure text adventure

which is heavily based on an earlier, equally obscure game, plus it is written in second person and third person simultaneously

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/05/30/caveman-adventure-1983/

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #bbcmicro

cover for Caveman Adventure with caveman and tiger

I moved the last few repos off of GitHub over to Sourcehut. My GitHub is now completely empty.

https://github.com/blainsmith

I moved over my text adventure game engine for Hare and Go lib for doing AF_PACKET sockets and SO_TIMESTAMP measuring.

- https://git.sr.ht/~blainsmith/aevintyri
- https://git.sr.ht/~blainsmith/fast_afpacket

#Sourcehut #HareLang #GoLang #TextAdventure #AFPACKET #Linux

the conclusion to Nosferatu, the VIC-20 game crammed into 8K of space

wherein the sharp stick and mallet get used for unconventional purposes

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/05/27/nosferatu-trees-are-reserved-for-coffins/

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #vic20 #commodore

hand made map of the game by the author he used while making it

in which I embark on the VIC-20 game Nosferatu

which, unusually, has us not here to kill the vampire, but steal an artifact and escape

also, I give the story of Terminal Software and how fibbing to a reporter led to their most famous game

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/05/26/nosferatu-1982-1983/

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #vic20 #commodore

Nosferatu cover, man with cross, hand coming from ground

I decided to release the source code of my award-winning text adventure game for vintage computers, Silk Dust: https://github.com/DarwinNE/Silk-Dust #opensource #retrocomputing #TextAdventure #InteractiveFiction #GPLv3

The splash screen of the Silk Dust text adventure game on Commodore Amiga computer.

The conclusion to the French game Nightmare House, featuring buttons you're not supposed to press and levers you aren't supposed to push unless you want to die.

I go more into the circumstances the tape was preserved and the early French adventure game industry.

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/05/24/cauchemard-house-vous-avez-gagne/

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #zx81 #french