Text adventure ported to social media

Text adventure ported to social media(threads.net)

87 points by mayiplease 2 years ago | 16 comments

edent 2 years ago |

Interestingly, when I did something similar on Twitter a few years ago, I received a very polite email from the people who owned the trademark to "Choose Your Own Adventure" requesting that I not use that specific phrase.

As far as I could tell, they didn't actually have the ™ for computer games at the time. But I can understand how they didn't want to become a genetic brand like Kleenex or Hoover.

(https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2015/01/writing-a-choose-your-own-a...)

hyperthesis 2 years ago | |

Depending on jurisdiction, technically, a trade mark ™ is established by use, for the tort of passing off. A registered trademark uses the encircled R symbol: ®

You may be thinking of copyright, which at one time did not explicitly include computer programs as protected works, depending on jurisdiction.

alanjay 2 years ago | |

AIUI, the book "20 Goto 10" also avoids referring to itself as CYOA, despite its similarities for the same legal reason.

cryptoz 2 years ago |

I'm loving the revival of text adventures, especially in the GenAI area (less so in social media, but, still). I used to play Zork a lot (lol in the 2000s though, on linux and it was the coolest thing).

I've made a series of sci-fi gen-ai text adventure games, https://cosmictrip.space/gameannouncement where GPT is the game and DALL-E can visualize for you, inspired by other similar projects. (the game is a bit buggy if you refresh, and signups limited to gmail as I had to combat some LLM-abuse spam (also why there is no free-form text box right now, as there SHOULD BE))

jawerty 2 years ago | |

Totally agree. I recently did a livestream/tutorial building a choose your adventure with llama 2 and React and had genAI for characters. A lot of fun! Hoping to add loot and fights in my next stream about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPbM5Rs1_8Y&t=16s

soneca 2 years ago | |

I played with a version where the AI creates the text and the options, but trying to add a new mechanic (you have to select, in the text, two words that unlock each option).

https://www.theabysstalksback.com/

captn3m0 2 years ago |

I’ve been wanting to write a Mastodon/Twitter twine compiler that would take an existing Twine story and compile it to a list of posts.

https://github.com/captn3m0/ideas#twitter-adventure-maker

The primary difficulty is in flattening the state, which twine supports (apple=true, key=false in this story) but if it’s not too many variables might work out.

rapnie 2 years ago | |

Nice list. Your collaborative bookmarking favorite is on the Fediverse with Postmarks [0], and another alternative in the making (forgot name).

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/08/with-postmarks-social-book...

captn3m0 2 years ago | | |

Thanks, never thought of looking into Fediverse for bookmarking but it makes sense in hindsight.

Will add these to the idea doc and try them out.

stavros 2 years ago | |

I'm new to this, are there Twine stories somewhere that I can download? Do you know? Does Twine "play" them? Sorry, these questions are very rudimentary.

captn3m0 2 years ago | | |

The Twine website links to a few, along with thousands at IFDB; https://ifdb.org/search?searchbar=system%3Atwine

And itch: https://itch.io/games/tag-twine

See the Twinery for more, including the spec: https://twinery.org/

apsdsm 2 years ago |

Amazing. Hyperlinks.

layer8 2 years ago | |

But with comment threads!

mvellandi 2 years ago |

A buddy of mine writes “Adventure Snack”, an interactive fiction blog. After each intro, the story begins using a static HTML/JS template that I adapted to use with the Inky story editor. Fun exercise!

https://adventuresnack.substack.com/ https://github.com/mvellandi/winky https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/

herval 2 years ago |

That’s art, bravo