[badbanana]

If you wish to give feedback or ask questions; please go ahead. I and a workmate did this at a work-related hackathon a couple weeks ago.

[zyx321]

Well, my first instinct on the design puzzle was something among the lines of http://xkcd.com/149/ I was a little surprised to get a "no such command" error, especially after finding out the actual solution...

[xtrumanx]

The aesthetics does not make for easy reading. Never was interested in text adventures in the first place but the blurriness made me quit the game faster than I would have.

[badbanana]

Yeah you're not the only one saying that. I guess text games aren't what the kids want these days :)

There should probably be a switch to turn off the bad screen effects.

[teh_klev]

Nice idea, but can you allow folks to turn off the fake flickering/display faults. It's hugely distracting. Also the CGA style font is kinda hard to read, perhaps you could allow folks to:

- change the font

- adjust the brightness and contrast

Back in the day when I was a mini-computer engineer our terminal screens were much nicer and crisp.

[isxek]

I had originally submitted this a few days ago (see: http://imgur.com/uCRZuU4), after learning about it from a game-related site (http://www.gnomeslair.com/2014/06/avaus-text-adventure-so-yo...). Never made it to the front page at all. I'm glad it did, eventually.

Should I stick a "Show HN" the next time I find something? I'm hesitant to do so since I wasn't the one who wrote it.

[willvarfar]

One fun idea for you is to theme it as an IDE and code rather than a classic terminal text adventure?

I tried it for an LD a while back but http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Th... didn't really get the text itself to look like code from a squint test, nor get syntax completion finished in time.

[badbanana]

That's actually a super cool idea for a developer themed text game. Was it a web based game and is it still playable somewhere?

[willvarfar]

http://williame.github.io/ludum_dare_23_tiny_world/

I've since been shown a nice IRSSI theme too: http://irssi.org/themefiles/c0ders.png

[mkesper]

I really hate green on black and would like to read in positive mode (black on white).

[michaelmior]

Thanks! That was some nice entertainment for the morning :)