Questions tagged [text-based]
A game which eschews the use of graphics and instead relies on text to descriptively illustrate the world. Often involves parsing text input from the player to determine action.
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How to add skill expression to a text based turn based game?
I’m working on a text based and turn based roguelite. I want to have some way of requiring more skill than just mastery of the characters abilities. The dilemma I’m facing is that I’m not sure how to ...
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Implementing building structures in a text-based game?
Basically, I'm trying to make a text-bases sims-like game. Obviously, making a text version of a graphical game while keeping it actually interesting to play is proving quite difficult. One of my ...
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How to use Inkle-style state machines to help with the creation of open world quests?
I've been fascinated by this talk ever since I watched it: GDC Vault Jon Ingold (Inkle) - Narrative Sorcery: Coherent Storytelling in an Open World It proposes an implementation to simplify the ...
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Server-Client Communication
I have a client, and it's basically a potato client. What I mean by that is it's code is something like this: (This is a junky version of the code, just to make a point) ...
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Make types, levels, armor and weapons for an text based adventure game, java
So i plan on doing a text based adventure game in java. And right now iam planning my game. I came up with different types of player (exp. attacker, defender. etc) weapons, potions (health potions, ...
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How can I handle input in C without halting the main loop?
I want my C program to update the console every second, and it was working fine until I tried to handle input. Now the program halts since it waits an input from the user. How can I do this? ...
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How to add multiple floors to a map in a text-based game?
I decided to learn how to make games during this quarantine. I am reading Mission Python, a book that teaches how to make games using python and pygame. I'm halfway through it, but the game only has ...
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Abstraction for dialogue and quests in web game
I'm not very experienced with web languages, but I know a little bit of JavaScript. I'm working on creating a text-based rpg in HTML and need a way to modify dialogues for main story or quest ...
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