Are You Retro Enough? Text Adventure Engine Rebuilt in React

I grew up playing text adventures (aka interactive fiction), and recently I spent some time studying a game engine from 1978 and reverse engineering it for ReactJS.

In this video, we'll talk about technical achievements of the original engine created by Scott and Alexis Adams. We'll go over the structure and some of the code and talk about how to make new games for the app.

CHAPTERS
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:35 Background
00:01:33 Pirate Adventure
00:02:01 Verbs & Nouns
00:03:53 ReactJS Remake
00:04:28 Interactive Fiction
00:05:03 Engine Improvements
00:06:35 Processing Vocabulary
00:07:40 Events
00:08:20 Saving your game
00:08:55 Catching Synonyms
00:10:42 Content
00:11:53 Content Development Tools
00:12:39 Conclusion

To play the games, you can head to https://adventure.ridiculopathy.com

Git Repo for running the app locally and making your own games: https://github.com/markarenz/mms-text...

Original Pirate Adventure BASIC source code as printed in Byte Magazine in 1980: https://bit.ly/3M6G3Ul

Blog post on MarkMakesStuff.com: https://www.markmakesstuff.com/posts/...