[Coco] What is the interest in watching Text Adventure play through videos?

[Steve Strowbridge]

I don't think the map changed Wayne, but I was transported back to my own
cell/room each time, so I was in the "middle" of the game, it seems you can
go about 4 moves east or west from your room, and there are only a few side
attractions along the way.  The play through I did was pretty easy to map
in my head after a bit, but yea, mapping would be good.

I think the next video I will do will be Raaka Tu, another interesting, and
hopefully not too long play through.

I will try and spice that one up with some visuals, somehow, maybe even add
dramatic music, need to put my thinking cap on for that one, but think
there is a way to enhance the original experience, but yet remain true to
it, so I'll try a few different ways to do that.

Thanks for the feedback.



Steve Strowbridge, aka
The Original Gamer Stevie Strow
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On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 12:41 PM, Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com> wrote:

> I watched the video. Text games are interesting, though not as "grabbing"
> as graphics games. I still like them though. Is it my imagination, or did
> the map in the game change every time your character got a lobotomy? I
> would love to play that game and see if I can draw the maps. Is it freely
> available, and where can I find it?
>
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Steve Strowbridge <
> ogsteviestrow at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
> > I have wrestled with this in my mind, it's odd enough to me to process
> the
> > fact that people like watching CoCo videos in general, which I'm thankful
> > for, but you can sort of rationalize, in  your head, that
> > graphics/sound/music/etc., may be part of the appeal.
> >
> > But what about text adventures?  Ironically, text adventures were the
> > bigger draw for me to get a computer over an Atari 2600 at the time, the
> > idea of the interactive fiction, the theater of the mind, and trying to
> > solve a mystery all appealed to me.
> >
> > It played to my fascination of playing the paper and dice version of
> > Dungeons and Dragons when I was like 12, so for me, Adventure games are a
> > big part of my early computing history, and are some of my fondest
> > memories, and frustrations, too.
> >
> > But how does that translate into a medium that may have an "audience"
> I've
> > often wondered, and I've resisted testing this, until just now.
> >
> > I've done my first video of the CoCo version of Bedlam, which I think I
> > only ever remember solving like twice, and the first time in 30 years I
> > played it, I was able to solve it as well.
> >
> > Here is the video:
> > https://youtu.be/_I0LvMPTkoo
> >
> > Warning, it's about 30 minutes, and it's just the nuclear green screen,
> and
> > this old guy rambling, so drink some coffee before you start watching.
> >
> > Is this of interest to anyone else, is what I'm wondering aloud.
> >
> > We have had a few talks in the past of possibly doing a live stream of
> > playing an adventure game and getting more people involved, that way
> it's a
> > little more interactive, it's less of "one person's journey" and we can
> > even crowd source assistance for the people watching with us.
> >
> > Does that sound interesting?  Ultimately I'd love to go through the food
> > chain of the small to large text adventures and then move up to some of
> the
> > graphical ones, and even, ultimately the Sierra On-Line ones.
> >
> > Again, I wonder who'd watch....  The early verdict, is Bedlam, less than
> 24
> > hours later, has 60 views already, which is encouraging, I wonder if
> it's a
> > fluke, or, if this could become "a thing"
> >
> > Love to hear some people weigh in on this, and love to hear about who'd
> be
> > interested in collaborating with me on future productions, especially the
> > live stream/community ones.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> > Steve Strowbridge, aka
> > The Original Gamer Stevie Strow
> > Website/Merchandise/CoCo links page:
> > http://ogsteviestrow.com
> > Email:  ogsteviestrow at gmail.com
> > Get your "Game Play Goodnes" fix of CoCo and retro videos at:
> > http://youtube.com/ogsteviestrow
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