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"A Minimalist Text Adventure"-- What would a maximalist text adventure look like?

• makeset 13y ago
  Zork?
• maxsilver 13y ago
  Dwarf Fortress? I guess it's not really a text adventure, but still...
  • saraid216 13y ago
    Dwarf Fortress is probably a textbook example of anti-minimalism.
• dhotson 13y ago
  Maybe something like roflbalt? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoHmJfXqwbM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoHmJfXqwbM https://github.com/pda/roflbalt https://github.com/pda/roflbalt :-P
• Jd 13y ago
  Dunno, but if you are a frequent online gamer you probably know that 'minimialism' is a frequently used tag over at Kongregate and that there many other minimalist games that are not text adventures. Notable examples: Momiga (http://www.kongregate.com/games/Rogerup/momiga http://www.kongregate.com/games/Rogerup/momiga) - one button, one dot Midas (http://www.kongregate.com/games/wanderlands/midas http://www.kongregate.com/games/wanderlands/midas) This is not a minimalist game (http://stormalligator.com/this-is-not/ http://stormalligator.com/this-is-not/) Pretentious game (http://www.kongregate.com/games/keybol/pretentious-game http://www.kongregate.com/games/keybol/pretentious-game)
• treerex 13y ago
  Any of the later (or heck, even the earlier) Infocom text adventures are far from minimalistic. And contemporary interactive fiction written with Inform quite complex. Far more so than this.
• olgeni 13y ago
  ed?
• ctdonath 13y ago
  The Matrix? ("Blonde, brunette, redhead...")
  • qznc 13y ago
    Nowadays, I imagine Cypher playing Dwarf Fortress in that scene. "Blonde, brunette, redhead dwarfs..."