#Free text adventure archive#
#Free text adventure series#

Since 1992, the Archive has collected thousands of text adventures, text adventure development tools, articles, essays, hint files, walkthroughs, jokes, and sly references to Greek politics. You can give it a play for yourself on the BBC website. The ArchiveвЂ™s mission is to preserve the history and practice of interactive fiction and make it freely available to the public. If you were hankering after the 20th anniversary edition, though, never fear: it's still around The result is the same punishingly difficult gameplay (which will 'kill you frequently') in a brand-new interface. We then decided that rather than having a simple functionality where the user could tweet, we would allow the game itself to tweet, based on the actions of users in the game.' The $, % and ^ symbols were replaced with new ones for the Altarian Dollar, Flanian Pobble Bead and the Triganic Pu, not because they are needed in the game, but just because we felt like it. Having covered the basics, we decided to slip in an 'Any' key, just because we could. We were able to build in a larger, handier interface, with additional keys and functionality, and build in the ability to tweet from the game,' the dev team wrote. 'The old Flash game would not work on the new servers, and in porting it to a new HTML5 incarnation, several innovations took place. Last year, AI Dungeon debuted as a free text adventure game.If youve never tried one before, or youre just bored and have a Mac nearby, open Gamebooks like the Choose Your Own Adventure and Fighting Fantasy books.

You won't get the feelies, but you will get the original game as written by Douglas Adams himself and programmed by Steve Meretzky, along with a few little upgrades. With over 100 all-original areas, Dark Castle MUD is a challenge Text-Adventure-Game. The original is hard to find (and play) now, but hoopy froods can rejoice! for the BBC has delivered a brand-new free-to-play HTML5 remake.

#Free text adventure series#

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, written by Douglas Adams and first appearing as a radio play in 1979, is one of sci-fi's most beloved franchises, spinning off into a series of novels (published from 1979), a TV show, a comic book, a film - and, in 1984, an interactive text-based adventure game by developer Infocom. (Screenshot by Michelle Starr/CNET Australia) To celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text-based adventure game, the BBC has released an online version, playable for free.