[Coco] Anyone still play text adventure games?

[Sean]

That was me, first time I actually ever won a game!

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Steve Batson
<steve at batsonphotography.com> wrote:
> Thanks Aaron...I got in from home...it looks like someone played it through
> to escape the asylum. Is the a command that can be issued to force it to
> the start by the user? I know that wouldn't make other current players
> happy though...LOL.
>
> ----------------------------------------
> From: "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 2:09 PM
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Anyone still play text adventure games?
>
> I started up the server, you can play by telneting to 69.13.218.10 port
> 6809
>
> this url may work depending on the computer you click it with:
>
> telnet://69.13.218.10:6809
>
> A few new commands were added to those available in Bedlam, like /who
> to see who is connected, /say to talk to other players, etc.  I think
> there is some help built in.  It's been a while.
>
> I will package up the source and post somewhere in next couple days.
>
> There is no "save game", but the server will persist state as long as
> it's running, so you can disconnect and come back later (although by
> that time someone else may have open/closed doors, etc).
>
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Steve Batson
>  wrote:
>> I'd love to see the Perl Version. Would be cool to play on the PC or
>> anything running Perl. Does it let you save the game to resume later?
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>>
>> From: "Aaron Wolfe"
>> Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 10:59 PM
>> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts"
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Anyone still play text adventure games?
>>
>> A couple years ago I rewrote Bedlam in Perl. It's fairly authentic,
>> with all of the original text, rooms, mobs, commands, etc. However,
>> it is multi player, accessible over the internet via telnet. Once you
>> escape the asylum, instead of ending the game you wind up on the
>> street outside the asylum. Across the street is a spooky old house,
>> which was going to be where I implemented the Haunted House adventure.
>> A bus pulls up to the curb every so often, and if you get on it takes
>> you out to a clearing in the forest, where I was going to put Raakatu.
>> Was thinking about ways to incorporate other great text adventures as
>> well. Anyway, only Bedlam is complete, but it is fully playable.
>> Making it multiplayer is interesting.. you can work together or
>> against each other since all players are in the same world.
>>
>> I can put a server online or make the source available if anyone would
> like
>> it.
>> -Aaron
>>
>> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Steve Batson
>> wrote:
>>> Just wondering if anyone still plays text adventures on the CoCo or any
>>> other computer for that matter. I used to love Bedlam. Years back, I
> was
>>> considering writing my own Text Adventure, but never got around to it.
>> With
>>> all the cool graphics and sounds in games out there, think anyone would
>>> even have an interest in text adventure games anymore?
>>>
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