Text based adventure games
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_game)"An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical (e.g. reflexes) challenge.[1] The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film, encompassing a wide variety of literary genres. Nearly all adventure games (text and graphic) are designed for a single player, since this emphasis on story and character makes multi-player design difficult.[2]In the Western world, the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1980s to mid-1990s when many considered it to be among the most technically advanced genres, but it is now sometimes considered to be a niche genre.[3] In East Asia on the other hand, adventure games continue to be popular in the form of visual novels, which make up nearly 70% of PC games released in Japan.[4]"
The text based adventure game is a sub genre of the adventure games, as well as graphic, visual and puzzle adventure games. A few examples of text based adventure games are:
The Hobbit: http://www.twinbee.org/hob/play.php?snap=hobbit
Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game_nolan.shtml
Zork/ Adventure/ Jigsaw/ Galatea: http://www.web-adventures.org/
Ye Dungeonman 1: http://www.homestarrunner.com/dungeonman.html
Scott Adams’ Back Catalogue (inc. Adventureland, The
Count, Pirate’s Cove, etc.): http://www.ifiction.org/games/?cat=44
Quest (Editor’s picks): http://textadventures.co.uk/
First game I have played from here, was "It's election time in Pakistan: Go rich boy,Go!" ( http://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/44yzyx1xykcy0sv4ycz9cg/its-election-time-in-pakistan-go-rich-boy-go )
I found this very entertaining. I have played it a few times, each time choosing a different path, and thus being given different plot lines. This game is about a rich boy who decides to part part of the democratic process in Pakistan and go out and vote despite the imminent threat of bombings in the polling stations. He has multiple choices when it comes to who to choose to take with him: a girl he fancies, his best friend (an airhead), or his guard. With the girl he doesn't get very farm he earns some points for standing up to his beliefs, but gets beaten up in the end by her Dad and his guards, so doesn't get to actually vote.
By taking his best friend, he has to change his attitude, he needs to deceive him slightly, in order to actually get him out of the house and in order to get him to agree with his plans. So, by doing just that, he gets to vote, but on the way, they encounter all sorts of obstacles. First, they have to cast their vote in a polling station located in the worst area of the city, they have to drive for well over two hours, after which they need to walk through a very run down neighbourhood, they are being abused by the militia. But, they get to vote and get to return home. So, happy days for the main hero and his best friend, as well as me as I did get to finish the game.
Another game I have played, or...attempted to play, was Captain Jumbo http://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/t1ai61mt20wtrffownebyw/captain-jumbo.
However, unlike the previous one. I found this one really difficult. It was really slow advancing through the level, as I kept encountering lots and lots of obstacles. There isn't a walkthrough, or I couldn't find one anyway, and I found it pretty frustrating, as it looks really interesting and am very curious to find out what happens and just simply couldn't...
