Are You Retro Enough? Text Adventure Engine Rebuilt in React

I grew up playing text adventures (aka interactive fiction), and recently I spent some time studying a game engine from 1978 and reverse engineering it for ReactJS.
In this video, we'll talk about technical achievements of the original engine created by Scott and Alexis Adams. We'll go over the structure and some of the code and talk about how to make new games for the app.
CHAPTERS
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:35 Background
00:01:33 Pirate Adventure
00:02:01 Verbs & Nouns
00:03:53 ReactJS Remake
00:04:28 Interactive Fiction
00:05:03 Engine Improvements
00:06:35 Processing Vocabulary
00:07:40 Events
00:08:20 Saving your game
00:08:55 Catching Synonyms
00:10:42 Content
00:11:53 Content Development Tools
00:12:39 Conclusion
To play the games, you can head to adventure.ridiculopathy.com
Git Repo for running the app locally and making your own games: github.com/markarenz/mms-text...
Original Pirate Adventure BASIC source code as printed in Byte Magazine in 1980: bit.ly/3M6G3Ul
Blog post on MarkMakesStuff.com: www.markmakesstuff.com/posts/...

[@luiswonder2101]

Impressive, you already created a text adventure game and here i am struggling with basic intros :(

[@MrSpoomples]

I checked out the other few videos you have, and this one is by far the best. The unique kind of content in this video really deserves to shoot to the top of both javascript and game development content. If you are ever looking for material for your channel, might I suggest making a series where you work through building this engine and editor? Keep up the good work!

[@elsicongru7400]

Dude, this is soo cool! Also, kudos for making a really professional video. The lazy part of me compels me to ask you for an explaination on how the code works to save myself hours of tinkering. :P Anyways, great joob and I hope you continue makingcool stuff like this in the future!

[@igork3522]

Great video. I hope you make more.

[@martinemanuel8239]

Super interesting things, I experienced some nostalgia

[@terry-]

Great!

[@iMutt-yy6vf]

If you need a laugh, the reason why they talk about running it on your "16k TRS-80" was because that was the **upgraded** model; the base model only came with 4k of RAM!

[@ahope1]

Brilliant! Is your interpreter backwardly compatible with Scott Adams TRS-80 .DAT game files? (I think the answer is no. (Which is totally fine by me, btw!))

[@markmakesstuff6702]

Thanks. The project started with backward compatibility in mind, but since I can't include the original games in the repo, it made sense to move beyond the original features.

[@ahope1]

@@markmakesstuff6702 Are you aware of ScottKit?

[@markmakesstuff6702]

@@ahope1 I'm checking it out now. It looks interesting.

[@_cul8r_]

Super cool! You have a like and sub from me!!

[@Qu0thTheRaven]

🤓

[@fredericko5832]

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