Spiral Knights - Anyone play text based games?

Anyone play text based games?

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Sat, 05/28/2011 - 02:25

Bloodfetish

I know its sorta out of fashion these days and most younger people i know(not that i'm that old myself) seem to need graphics to play a game, just wondering if anyone still does play.

A fair few text based games i used to play are either gone or are starting to get lower numbers playing :-(

If you do play still, or have played, post which ones youve tried. liked/disliked. Maybe add what sort it was.. I like trying a few here and there.

1st i played was TEQ(playteq.com). number based country builder, rounds last a month, solo, group or team games. my favorite :-)
Earth - lil like teq, didnt play as much but still found it ok. Still out there run by new ppl after it was shutdown.

Only text based RPG game ive played(thats still around) was MKO (midkemia online) based on the Riftwar Saga books, and even though i played Puzzle pirates, it was people from MKO that told me about spiral knights :-)
MKO was fun, lil more time consuming. Still like to log on occasionally.

Sat, 05/28/2011 - 03:14

Shue-Donnym

Text based games?

REAAAAAAALLLYYYYY?????????/
HAHA! HAHA! AAAAHAHAHAHA!
NO.

Sat, 05/28/2011 - 03:21

Bloodfetish

Well, xPlad, most text based

Well, xPlad, most text based games do require more maturity then a 6 year old has, so im not surprised.
Lemme translate that in a way you might understand.

OMG!!! HahaHAhaHA, u is 2 NEWBZOR for itz.!!!!11!!!!11

But thank your for your well worded input on the matter, it was much appreciated.
I look forward to further chats with you.

Sat, 05/28/2011 - 04:55

Shue-Donnym

But then again...

There was no ch475p33k in my previous post.

Sat, 05/28/2011 - 04:59

Shue-Donnym

Oh and...

I tried a text based game once-forgot its name, but wasn't fond of it. Meh. So, yeah, i dont play them.

Sat, 05/28/2011 - 10:37

Dogrock

I played Improbable Island

I played Improbable Island for quite a bit. Though that was about two years ago now.

Sat, 05/28/2011 - 12:04

Niramu

Legacy Username

Not to leave out Adventure and Zork.

I've been playing and modding nethack since 2005. It's one of the best text games ever, and the source of "The Dev Team Thinks of Everything" as a trope. Seriously, you want to kick a book and kill yourself with a papercut? Possible. Eat the corpse of Death? Ill-advised, but possible. Whack things with a cocatrice corpse? Just make sure to wear gloves first. It even has quantum mechanics and Schrodinger's box! Is the cat alive or dead? Let's find out!

I also played a curses version of tetris a while back, does that count?

I played a few MUDs back in the day, but never got very far. I just didn't have the patience to figure out maps that were typically represented in ASCII or looked like the cartographer was a flowchart designer for a game company back in 1995.

Sat, 05/28/2011 - 17:27

redten

Legacy Username

Faery Tale Online

A text based rping game. You sign up, from which you join a line of people waiting to be born into the world. When two characters in-game have "sex" (text based, nothing graphic), the female gets pregnant, and gives birth to players waiting in the que. There are numerous races, and you are born with certain attributes and skill sets. You can make numerous things, armor, houses, tools, food, ect. RPing all the way through. It is all real time, you have to feed your character lest you starve to death, and its perma-death, though you can get a new/have multiple characters. If you like games like DnD, you'll enjoy this.
Currently in open beta.

http://www.faerytaleonline.com/

I would recommend reading the FAQ first.

Mon, 05/30/2011 - 06:16

Etendue

Redwall: warlords. Been

Redwall: warlords.

Been playing it for 8 years, and I still love it.
http://www.redwallwarlords.com/index.php
I'm Etendue on Regular. See you there?

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 22:05

Kavron

well, if nethack counts....

As niramu up there has said, nethack is a good classic. its more of a text based gui though than a text game like adventure. But if you like that type of game, ADOM is another good one to try.

Wed, 06/08/2011 - 11:20

#10

Credendo

Legacy Username

Dear god PLEASE don't bring

Dear god PLEASE don't bring up text based muds, you'll make me itch to go back to my days as a vampire in Realms of Despair, an excelent old school zork style mud. I swear I nearly failed high school thanks to that game :)

Wonder if my character is still on there.....

CURSES!!!

Sun, 06/12/2011 - 22:41

#11

Cleaver

Developer

Well, yes

I started playing MUD in 1983 when I was twelve, then wrote a few dodgy muds from scratch on the school network. We started Avalon in 1990 with eight 2400 baud modems and six dodgy old greenscreen terminals. We went on the internet in 1994!

I'd like to make another text game. I can't reveal the theme, it's head-slappingly obvious.

Anyone who's played MMOs, virtual worlds or Mob Wars knows that much of the theatre of the game is in your mind's model of the world and your fellow inhabitants. Creativity, communication and drama are often better achieved via text. Grinding and content consumption can be satisfying, a big game can be made by a modest team of talented volunteers. Nearly all the codebases are open source. It's a great way to learn to read and type quickly, code or write. Chat can be a hilarious jam poetry session. I think it's easier to build up strong friendships in a text game, if nothing else because an active game can be so small -- the size of barely functioning guild in most MMOs.

(I'm the co-founder / CEO of Three Rings, the company wot makes Spiral Knights)

Fri, 06/17/2011 - 00:23

#12

Twiddle

I've played a few, but never stuck with them

I would if they had a text based game where you didn't lose all your stuff when you die, but I've never found one like that.

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