Inform VS Adventuron

Inform 7 is a domain-specific language for creating parser-based works of interactive fiction (i.e. old-school "text adventure games"). It does the heavy lifting of parsing and maintaining the consistency of the world model for the programmer. Source: over 1 year ago

Inform 7 takes this to the extreme, allowing code such as "A distance is a kind of value. 5 miles specifies a distance.". Source: over 1 year ago

Pure parser-based games have become niche, but they are still out there and, like others mentioned, have continued to evolve (see Inform 7). You no longer have to "guess the verb". Source: almost 2 years ago

How will you earn its trust? http://inform7.com. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

Neat. Have you ever seen Inform? http://inform7.com/ Might offer some inspiration on future features. It's a pretty cool language that's been around for a long time and has the same use case. Source: almost 2 years ago

If you want something like Mushroom Hunt, you could use the same tool they used to make it - https://adventuron.io/. Source: over 1 year ago

Https://adventuron.io/ for a web-based retro style text adventure with graphics. Source: over 1 year ago

Check Adventuron. It's an online authoring tool for online text adventures (parser games) with or without images. Https://adventuron.io. Source: about 2 years ago

Although you did mention keeping things monochromatic and no visuals, if you do want to create games similar to later Scott Adams games with graphics and colour text, then Adventuron would be good for that. (Although you'd need to make your own graphics). Source: over 2 years ago