What is Text-based games?
Text-based games are games that build with text and the player can only use words and characters to play them. They can be played by one player or multiple players. In 1980s, text games were very popular. Now, most of text games are played by developers who wants to get familiar with the command line and programing environments. Also, computer scientists who started learning programing, they tend to build these types of games as practicing projects because they are easier than dealing with graphics and animations.
Text Adventure Games
Text adventure games are adventure stories that can let the player interact with the story and solve puzzles by typing commands. These types of games started to appear in 1970s. The reason for making these games was the computer limitation and the lack of imagination. Now these games started to slowly disappear and only played by programmers or senior people. Most of young people are playing video games instead of text games because these games are much interactive and give the player a better experience.
Examples of text adventure games:
Adventure
This was the first text adventure game made in 1976 by William Crowther. Crowther made this game for his children after he broke up from his wife. This game lets the player to explore a cave that looks almost the same as the Colossal Cave.
1893: A World’s Fair Mystery
1893: A World’s Fair Mystery was made by Peter Nepastad in 2002. The story of the game is about “Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition, which took place in 1893.” It is a history game.
Zork I
Zork I is a popular text game made in 1980 by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling. This game is still popular now and when I searched online about the text games, I found that everyone is talking about the game and it is all over the internet. The game is to solve some puzzles to find “Twenty Treasures of Zork.”
What came before text adventure games?
High level programming language found in 1940s by Konrad Zuse. The programing language unpacked all the power of computation. It helped the developers work much faster and it is much easier than the assembly language which found before the high level language.
What came after text adventure games?
Video games came after the text games and became much popular in the world. Text games started to disappear after the video games came out. Video games are much interesting than text games because they used interactive visuals. Modern video games are mostly coop games which let you play online with others and you can even talk with the players.
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