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1. IF – Text Based Game
11.06.17

2. HELLO!
You can find me at:
t.me/levay

3. Part 1
History

4. “A text game or text-based game is a
video game that uses text characters
instead of bitmap or vector
graphics. Text-based games were a
popular form of interactive fiction in
the 1980s.

5. Part 1 : History

Interactive Fiction

1975 – William Crowther created 1st
Text Adventure Game
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1977 – Zork, 1st
Infocom Game created by MIT students
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1978 – Roy Trubshaw created MUD (Muti User Dungeon)
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1983 – The Quill, 1st
widely-available program for writing
Text-Adventure Games

1995 – 1st
Interactive Fiction Competition

6. Part 1 : History
GO TO;
~ getlamp.com
~ textfiles.com/adventure/
~ ifarchive.org
~
brasslantern.org/community/history/
timeline.html

7. Part 2
Concept

8. Text Adventure
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Single Player
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Simple Commands
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Text Based (not ASCII Art)
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Freely Explore
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Inventory
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No Stats or Levels
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Puzzle Based and
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Role-Playing Story
Elements
Part 2 : Concept
MUD
(Multi User Dungeon)
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Multiplayer
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Real-Time
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Controllable Player
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Text Based (not ASCII Art)
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Advanced Stats/Levels
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Puzzle Based
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Role-Playing Story
Elements

9. Part 2 : Concept

10. Part 2 : Concept

11. TEXT
ADVENTURE

12. Part 2 : Concept
PARSER IF
A computer program or
portion of a program
that analyzes a string of
characters in order to
recognize grammatical
units.
Engine:
Inform, TADS
CYOA
Choose your own
adventure (often
abbreviated to CYOA;
also called choice-based
IF) refers to a style of
interactive fiction where
the game is assembled
from a set of story nodes
and related choices or
hyperlinks.
Engine:
ChoiceScript,
Inklewriter
HYPERTEXT
Hypertext IF is related
to choice-based games
in that it makes the
player’s next possible
actions an explicit list,
but separates itself
through presentation.
Engine:
Twine, Undum

13. Part 2 : Concept
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PARSER IF

14. Part 2 : Concept
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CYOA

15. Part 2 : Concept
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HYPERTEXT

16. Part 2 : Concept
House
Player
Key
Umbrella
Sherlock’s Room
Cucur Cake
Briefcase
BookHandgun
Go North
Go South
Go East

17. Part 2 : Concept
Anything can be subjected
to objects in the story of the game
Object
Room Player Container Etc...

18. MUD/ MUSH
/ MUX /
MUCK / MOO
/ etc..

19. Part 2 : Concept
A MUD or Multi-User Dungeon ,
is an inventively structured social experience on the Internet, managed by a
computer program and often involving a loosely organized context or theme,
such as a rambling old castle with many rooms or a period in national history.
Some MUDs are ongoing adventure games; others are educational in purpose;
and others are simply social. MUDs existed prior to the World Wide Web,
accessible through Telnet to a computer that hosted the MUD.
Today, many MUDs can be accessed through a Web site and some are
perhaps better known as "3-D worlds."

20. Part 2 : Concept
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD
www.mudconnect.com/
http://mudstats.com/

21. Part 2 : Concept
If you are new to the concept, the main purpose of separating the two is
to have players connect to the Portal but keep the MUD running on the Server.
This way one can restart/reload the game (the Server part) without
Players getting disconnected.

22. Part 3
Tools

23. Part 3 : Tools
20 years of IF DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS

1979 – Z-Machine
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1981 – DDL
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1983 – The Quill
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1985 – GAGS
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1986 – ADVSYS
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1987 – AGT
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1992 – ALAN
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1992 – TADS 2
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1994 – Inform 5
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1995 – Hugo
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1996 – Inform 6
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1997 – ADRIFT
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2006 – Inform 7
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2006 – TADS 3

24. Part 3 : Tools
ENGINE/GAME SERVER: Evennia, HERITAGE,
Quest, CircleMud, CoffeeMud, MUSHCode, Glulx,
SCUMM, Squiffy, Advenjure, etc...

25. Part 3 : Tools
GAME CLIENT/MUD CLIENT: Web Browser, Terminal,
GGMUD, Mudlet, MUSHClient, TinTin++, Portal GT,
wxMUD, etc...

26. Part 4
Design

27. Part 4 : Design
PLAN YOUR
CONCEPT
CHOOSE
COMPILER
CREATE
STORY LINE
TEST YOUR
GAME

28. Part 4 : Design

29. Part 4 : Design

30. Part 4 : Design

31. Part 5
How to Play ?

32. Part 5 : How to Play ?

33. Part 5 : How to Play ?
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http://www.brasslantern.org/beginners/beginnersguide.html

34. Part 6
How to Contribute ?

35. PLAY
PARTICIPATE
WRITE

36. Part 6 : How to Contribute ?
ifcomp.org ( Open Regist July 2017, Prepare! )

37. THANKS!
Any questions?
telegram.me/levay