This game is a text-based adventure created with the intention of allowing the user to experience the frustration of being dyslexic. Sentences and words are made intentionally hard to read through ...

Microsoft, Team Xbox, and Activision have done an interesting service to game preservation this week. The trio have compiled and made open source the entirety of the classic Zork text-based adventure ...

Russell Fourie-Kidson wouldn't call himself a gamer in the traditional sense—not at first. While other serious gamers fired headshots in CoD, He dove headfirst into The Sims. For him, gaming has ...

Chaosmonger Studio has announced the release of MIGHTY 1990, a retro-inspired adventure game that brings the mechanics, humor, and aesthetics of classic late '80s and early '90s gaming to modern ...

A little while ago, Microsoft made the first three Zork games open-source to help preserve them. On the surface, it's a nice gesture; Zork is a key part of gaming history, and allowing people to ...

Like all video game genres, adventure games have come a long way since their introduction in the 1970s. At first, adventure games started as text-based adventures, requiring the player’s imagination ...

Last week, Microsoft made the classic games Zork, Zork II, and Zork III available as open source under the MIT license. “Our goal is simple: to place historically important code in the hands of ...

Back in the very early days of home computers, onscreen imagery was a bit rubbish so text-based adventure games ruled the gaming roost. The Ink Console is aiming to rekindle this retro vibe by ...

In the early days of computer gaming, when text-only interfaces were the norm, one of the most common means of rendering games was with words, and words alone. Some of the earliest games in existence ...