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Although I've been a fan of playing Text Adventures since I was a youngen, I've never dabbled in trying to create one of my own before. Recently I've been teaching myself how to use Quest 5 to create my own sci-fi adventure that's set on an abandoned spaceship. Stereotypical concept granted but I'm fascinated with most things sci-fi. I've just uploaded a demo onto textadventures.co.uk and would love any feedback... Source: over 1 year ago
I think Quest (the program available at textadventures.co.uk) works that way, inserting objects, descriptions and connections through a menu with no coding. It doesn't have the flexibility of Inform, TADS, etc., but it might a good option for what you're looking for. Source: over 1 year ago
And, just for fun, here's a piece of free gaming software: Quest, a little program that lets you make your own old-school text based adventure games. Source: over 1 year ago
And I'm pretty sure there's a ton out there. Http://textadventures.co.uk/. Source: over 1 year ago
You may also play the game at textadventures.co.uk by going to this link: http://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/mieqf0ssskw-ecq102rfag/living-a-lie. Source: over 1 year ago
LiveCode is about the closest literal logical successor to HyperCard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCode?wprov=sfti1 That said, I think Scratch is a better learning environment these days and you can develop workable apps in the style of HyperCard. There are plenty of tutorials, documentation, and examples to work from. https://scratch.mit.edu. - Source: Hacker News / 22 days ago
And https://codecombat.com, which has been around for a while now. I think this paradigm (navigating a character using "move" function invocations) is good but kind of exhausts its usefulness after a while. I question whether my daughter learns coding this way or just is playing a turn based top down platformer. The most code like thing is when you use 'loops' to have characters repeat sequences of moves. I... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
+1 Scratch! My son started with it, then expanded into Roblox/Lua. Children can download other people's games and experiment there. Scratch also has pre-made art, sounds, music. https://scratch.mit.edu/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
I am also going to highly recommend Scratch[1]. That is what got me into a programming around that age. You can even help him make a website to host his games on. [1]: https://scratch.mit.edu/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
This ! Learning to code will come after, spending time with your son writing down ideas might be more fun at first and it's a good time to teach him that games are thoughts first and then coded after. I would have recommended Scratch [1] for a first introduction instead of hoping into code right away, but since he is 9yo he will most likely want to hop on big game engine like he sees his favorite youtubers doing.... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
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