266 - Text Adventures
Retro Gaming Discussion Show
English - May 22, 2020 05:00 - 2 hours - 234 MB - ★★★★ - 19 ratingsVideo Games Leisure Games retro gaming retrogamingdiscussionshow rgds Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Kingy is joined by 3 fantastic guests in this fascinating topic of text adventures; back to an era when flashy graphics meant nothing, but good writing was everything.
Guests are:
Mark Hardisty, curator of Classic Adventurer magazine
Tim Gilberts - owner of Gilsoft and the genius behind The Quill, Illustrator and PAW
Stefan Vogt - a modern day text adventure author.
Show Notes:
Classic Adventurer http://classicadventurer.co.uk/
A Gremlin in the Works - https://www.bitmapbooks.co.uk/products/a-gremlin-in-the-works
Gilsoft adventure systems kindly written in Stefan's Blog -
http://8-bit.info/the-gilsoft-adventure-systems/
Stefan's text adventure games - https://8bitgames.itch.io/