RPG Codex :: A Text-Based Adventure Game

[DragoFireheart]

It was fun, but I'm not a big fan of text-based adventures. Always liked GUI more than just text.

 

[King Crispy]

That explains a lot.

 

[Coyote]

Updated the list of achievements.

Still haven't figured out the final achievement, but given DU's hint and the way you get the "Will die a virgin" one, you probably get it by typing "get [something]". Things that don't work include:

• a life.
• high.
• jiggy with it.
• down (and boogie).
• your nose.
• DarkUnderlord.
• answers.
• ahold of myself.
• a grip.
• a haircut, hippie!
• a life.
• a room.
• AIDS.
• knocked up.
• an abortion.
• a clue.
• in while the getting's good.
• a raise.
• 'em.
• 'er done.
• off.
• around.
• out.
• out of my head.
• it.
• ITZ.
• butthurt.
• all up in your business.
• plane tickets, bitch!
• revenge.
• your mom.
• your dad.
• your dog.
• the goddamn achievement already.

Edit: I just noticed that there's sort of a narrative within that list.

 

[Jaesun]

Nice find Coyote. :D

Where do you get plane tickets? heh

 

[Coyote]

You don't (as far as I know). Like I said, that's a list of things that don't work. I was bored and started typing all of the common phrases I could think of with the word "get" into the parser. When I ran out of those, I started trying some variations of the Codex's favorite games and memes.

Also, to clarify: given DU's hint, it's likely that the final achievement will not only require you to type "get ____"; it will also result in some sort of joke involving the phrase "You cannot get ____", as it did for the "Will die a virgin" achievement. (Neither "Grimoire" nor "Age of Decadence" works, incidentally.)

 

[poocolator]

Haha I wrote "DU sucks" expecting that it would be logged somewhere

 

[DarkUnderlord]

I thought of logging everything and seeing what commands people used. I didn't in the end.

Also, to clarify: given DU's hint, it's likely that the final achievement will not only require you to type "get ____"; it will also result in some sort of joke involving the phrase "You cannot get ____", as it did for the "Will die a virgin" achievement. (Neither "Grimoire" nor "Age of Decadence" works, incidentally.)

Actually in this instance it tells you "you already are!". It probably is a bit obscure but then Prosper did manage to GET HELP and GET LAID was also found.

 

[Black]

I couldn't check the status of TFTD LP thanks to this bs, fucking GAY!!

 

[Nex]

nm

 

[taplonaplo]

> You already are lost!
Achievement Unlocked: Lost

Oo

 

[Morkar Left]

Good job, especially considering the short development time. But I have to admit I ran out of patience with the prison corridors and gave up (maybe I run into a bug with endless corridors?). Make less filler content, give us stats, xp and turnbased combat and the codex has its official rpg where every developer can learn from how to do it right

 

[tarkin]

Great game, i had a lot of fun. Almost finished it in the morning (was only missing the anti psychotics) but i lost the track of time while exploring Retardo and had to run errands.
I read about the bag of lies on the forums before acquiring it and tried to combine it from the paper bag and The Good Womyn book, because i read it and as expected it was full of lies. You lost the opportunity there for multiple quest solutions, DU. But overall it was very good.

 

[Andhaira]

Gee, killing Andhaira and raping his corpse. That's pretty harsh DU.

Anyhow, I only played a bit but unlocked an achievement. It's the one you get when you type "Fuck You".

 

[Wild Slop]

You don't (as far as I know). Like I said, that's a list of things that don't work. I was bored and started typing all of the common phrases I could think of with the word "get" into the parser. When I ran out of those, I started trying some variations of the Codex's favorite games and memes.

I tried a couple of those too. Nice list of attempts.

Tryed to use the sheet with the razor to make a clan robe

Also ROLEPLAY and LARP. (while at the stage with the statues and the whole tranny thing it brought to mind a bit of a rocky horror thing ) - but no

I didnt read over enough to see if someone else tried:

How about instead of mutilating myself with the aid of drugs to get past (drug loving) trannies , I just give the drugs to the trannies?
:D nope

It seemed like a good idea at the time


Its a mystery.

*

> You already are lost!
Achievement Unlocked: Lost

Oo

ooh was this it?

 

[taplonaplo]

Yeah, it's quite a bummer... so much potential lulz lost

 

[JarlFrank]

Also try typing RAPE.

 

[Irxy]

Died 2 times in vagina and got bored. )
Never figured you could unlog to read the forum. (

 

[Coyote]

Died 2 times in vagina and got bored.

Don't worry, it happens to everyone. Or so I've heard.

Added "lost" achievement to the list. List is now complete.

 

[asper]

Hey, any chance of putting this back online? It was pretty nice.

I'm looking to write an online text adventure; DU, how did you create this so quickly?

 

[circ]

Hey, any chance of putting this back online? It was pretty nice.

I'm looking to write an online text adventure; DU, how did you create this so quickly?

Use Inform to write one quicker. It already does the parsing and engine bits so you just write room descs and connections and so on. Based on Infocom's parser. There were a few others but I forget the names, and they're kinda crap.

I remember in 6th grade in computer class, some bored guy wrote a text adventure for us to play in 10 minutes. The maze rooms were bullshit in this one though so I said fuck it.

 

[asper]

Yeah, I am learning inform7, but what I want is a purely online game, with images. There are two very good online Inform7 interpreters (Quixe and Parchment), but none of them support images, even though Inform7 supports them natively. The online interpreter for TADS also doesn't support images...

My aim is: A picture on the top half of the screen, text on the bottom half. All online directly at my site. I think this really should be possible. A simple image adds a lot to a text adventure, I'm a fan of the Legend adventure games.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Hey, any chance of putting this back online?

Not until after the server upgrade.

I'm looking to write an online text adventure; DU, how did you create this so quickly?

PHP. If I knew how to OOP properly I'd probably have some awesome class but I basically created multi-dimensional arrays for my objects and wrote some code that handled various properties I'd stuff in them. Then just simply hand-coded each room (if door_open flag is set, display this text else display this other text).

 

[EG]

How the hell did I miss this?

 

[curry]

How the hell did I miss this?

You failed the perception roll

 

[EG]

How the hell did I miss this?

You failed the perception roll

Critically.