The adventure consists of navigating through four different rooms, located underground, and solving the puzzle that connects them to find the way out.
I created a very simple text adventure called 4 Rooms and tried to replicate it in all the engines I tested to measure how difficult or limited the interfaces were. So if you want to know more engines, be sure to check out the list. It contains many engines made for the text adventure genre, but I selected the ones I like more to talk about here. The source I used to access these game engines was the Engine List, from The Interactive Fiction Wiki.
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The purpose of this particular article is to introduce IF engines to beginners who (like myself) can’t code to save their lives, or even to experienced devs who want to experiment with a new genre, which means the engines I chose to list here require no coding (or support optional coding) and are very intuitive to use, in my opinion, while still offering a good range of features.
Depending on your reactions and suggestions I can keep talking about other aspects of a text adventure game’s development. So, I decided to make a series dedicated to IF game design and maybe some tutorials. Since my first text adventure-related article, some readers asked me to write another one talking specifically about game engines designed for Interactive Fiction.
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