Even if this is the oldest type of adventure game, it is clear it doesn't need to remain stuck in the past. William O'Connell Interactive Fiction Dave Microwaves Games Trilogy I 1. As designers keep experimenting with ideas of the text-based adventure genre, players will continue to be able to interact with games in new ways. Play in browser Subtext 6.99 A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails. While natural language processing algorithms aren't perfect, and sometimes are laughably poor at maintaining semantic continuity (or even good syntax), AI Dungeon shows players the possibility of text that isn't pre-written.Įach of these games modifies the idea of a 'text adventure,' expanding how the text is created and interacted with or what 'text' even means.

Without limitations on content and choices, AI Dungeon can feel even more like a real-life game of Dungeons & Dragons with the computer responding in real-time to a player's choices.įor AI Dungeon, 'text' is an ever-changing target rather than a choice in a dialogue tree or a Boolean in code. Pentito is a massively multiplayer game with active players all around the world. It is possible to improve your character by committing organized crimes after small and medium-sized crimes. Each round has its own mysterious password and the aim of the game is to solve it.

AI Dungeon doesn't re-imagine 'text' so much as 'the production of text.' If Disco Elysium was a modern version of what a text-adventure could look like, AI Dungeon is a modern version of how a text-adventure could act. Pentito is a text-based online RPG set in the early 80's world.

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