Category Archives: Adventure

2 weeks with a Nokia N800

Thought it was probably time that I laid out some of my initial thoughts of the Nokia N800 that I won at LugRadio Live. I don’t have any pictures / screenshots at the moment, but I promise I’ll get some … Continue reading

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You’re standing in a cave. The available exits are…

After a long (make that a looooooonnnnnnng) amount of time I’ve finally re-installed TADS (the Text Adventure Development System) on the pc at home. And I ve actually started using it. So far, using a map I created the last … Continue reading

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150 locations and counting…

Okay, after a brief hiatus at work (it’s been really busy this week, I’m actually having to work for my money) I’ve managed to push the number of locations in the adventure to 150. Hopefully this afternoon I’ll have a … Continue reading

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Dungeoneering for beginners

Doing some adventure game planning to keep my mind off the approaching nuptials… So with 90+ locations and a lot of them re-mapped with more details I’ll share what I’ve done location-wise. There is: a creepy forest, a mad scientist’s … Continue reading

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Keeping the Adventure going…

A while ago I came up with the (possibly ill-advised?) idea of creating my own text adventure game. Why? Well back in the day, when I owned a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, I loved playing text adventures and even wrote a … Continue reading

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