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Hi,

I recently purchased and started playing some of Infocom’s legendary Interactive Ficition Adventures.

I had so much fun it made me wonder if anything like this exists today:

I mean well-written, interesting stories you are able to relive through text adventure games, maybe accompanied by decent graphics which add to the mood as explorer/detective/whatever.

I mean I have no problem with graphic adventures, I like them too, totally love MI, DOTT, STS and all the good games from Daedalic and so on!

But great text adventures feel like reading a novel and being the protagonist. Especially when they have great stories like INFOCOM’s! Who needs pics in a great novel? They are only detracting from the immersion IMHO.

I could totally imagine a remake of, say, Wishbringer in a modern format: with a parser that really understands whole sentences and some decent graphics which do not detract from the ‘book’ you are living in with this adventure. They also could make the world of the game much larger as they don’t have the restrictions now which they had then (64K/128K engine). And music (koaasst) and sounds wouldn’t hurt either, would they?

They also could finish HITCHHIKER TWO after all these years - they had started it after all well known from Andy Baio’s blog!

So is anybody in the know if the folks at Infocom or Legend or what else company are planning to do a remake or remaster of their adventure classics?
Or if fans of them are doing it?

Would be great if you could inform us all then

Tass Cjelli - 06 May 2016 05:25 AM

I recently purchased and started playing some of Infocom’s legendary Interactive Ficition Adventures.

I had so much fun it made me wonder if anything like this exists today:

I mean well-written, interesting stories you are able to relive through text adventure games, maybe accompanied by decent graphics which add to the mood as explorer/detective/whatever.

I haven’t kept up with the hobbyist text adventure scene for… gee, more years than I care to remember, but last time I checked it was still thriving and producing some pretty darn good games from time to time. (And, of course, a whole lot of average or not so good ones, but isn’t that always the case?)

If I wanted to get in touch with it again, some of the places I’d look at would be:

The Interactive Fiction Database
The Interactive Fiction Community Forum
The Interactive Fiction Competition

But I’m sure that this list is far from exhaustive.

Tass Cjelli - 06 May 2016 05:25 AM

I could totally imagine a remake of, say, Wishbringer in a modern format: with a parser that really understands whole sentences and some decent graphics which do not detract from the ‘book’ you are living in with this adventure. They also could make the world of the game much larger as they don’t have the restrictions now which they had then (64K/128K engine). And music (koaasst) and sounds wouldn’t hurt either, would they?

You might want to take a look at the recently released Lifestream by Storycentric Worlds. It is a remake of a graphic adventure in the style of a Legend game. I’ve just started playing it and feels like a text adventure with music and pictures, and without the need to type anything.

Karlok - 06 May 2016 07:47 AM

Worlds Apart

Brilliant - I’ve had this lined up to play for a while!