[swashbuck1r]

What an ambitious vision! This is a really neat concept and a great breakdown of the interesting challenges with making a great text-based experience for game users.

My kid was interested in starting with game programming a few years ago and I tried to push him down the path of a text adventure to start simple... and I recall not being happy with the text game engines I stumbled upon.

Here are some links I tracked down to play with it more:

* Main website: https://egamebook.com/

* Knights of San Francisco game: https://egamebook.com/knights/

* Game engine source: https://github.com/filiph/egamebook

* Quickstart to run locally: https://github.com/filiph/egamebook/tree/master/edgehead#dev...

* A web-based prototype https://egamebook.com/vermin/v/latest/

Edit/Update: Contrasting the game on my phone with the how it plays in the terminal, while looking at the source files is blowing my mind :). The phone game rendering is really slick/polished -- I can see this was a labor of love. Nicely done.

Here's the starting point of the game's text source if anyone else is interested... https://github.com/filiph/egamebook/blob/master/edgehead/ass...

[paulryanrogers]

Have you tried https://twinery.org/ ?