Okay, now this is quite impressive. Tristam Island is a text adventure designed like old Infocom works and it's playable across more platforms than you might expect.
Tristram Wyatt's profile on The Conversation. Before joining Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education as a university lecturer (Associate Professor) in 1989, I was a university. The work is obviously not as chaotic as Tristram suggests. Yet neither does it seem entirely appropriate to judge it under conventional standards of order and unity. In fact, the book warns us against trying to do so; we are afraid of being made to look like a Walter Shandy for trying to force our preconceived systems on subtle and complex reality. Thanks to Tristram we have all these terms for hawking and hunting. The book of venery, of hawking, and hunting, is called the book of Sir Tristram. All gentlemen should honour Sir Tristram for the goodly terms that gentlemen have and use, that separate a gentleman from a yeoman and a yeoman from a villager. (7,iii) Arms Edit.
Tristam - Who We Are
Developed by Hugo Labrande using modern, open source tools on Linux so naturally it has first-class Linux support. However, it's also available on over 30 other platforms too. From Linux to Windows, Amiga to Spectrum and even some calculators can run it. The technical details of it are just as impressive as the adventure you go on. The developer also supplies the plain '.z3' file to run in your favourite interactive fiction interpreter. It could run pretty much anywhere.
'After crashing your plane at sea, you end up drifting to a small island, with not much to survive. You explore, and find out the island was inhabited, years ago. But why did the people leave? And why is there a fence around the white house at the top of the hill?'
Terraria all items map. Pictured - Tristam Island on Linux with the supplied Lectrote IF interpreter.
While it's designed like a retro game, it's made with plenty of modern game design elements. Labrande mentions they tried to remove many of the frustrations commonly found in 1980s text adventures with 'no hunger timers, no frustrating mazes, no blocking situations that force you to restart'.
You can buy it on itch.io for $3.99 or try the demo.
Tristam - Who We Are - Monstercat
Tristam - Who We Are
Developed by Hugo Labrande using modern, open source tools on Linux so naturally it has first-class Linux support. However, it's also available on over 30 other platforms too. From Linux to Windows, Amiga to Spectrum and even some calculators can run it. The technical details of it are just as impressive as the adventure you go on. The developer also supplies the plain '.z3' file to run in your favourite interactive fiction interpreter. It could run pretty much anywhere.
'After crashing your plane at sea, you end up drifting to a small island, with not much to survive. You explore, and find out the island was inhabited, years ago. But why did the people leave? And why is there a fence around the white house at the top of the hill?'
Terraria all items map. Pictured - Tristam Island on Linux with the supplied Lectrote IF interpreter.
While it's designed like a retro game, it's made with plenty of modern game design elements. Labrande mentions they tried to remove many of the frustrations commonly found in 1980s text adventures with 'no hunger timers, no frustrating mazes, no blocking situations that force you to restart'.
You can buy it on itch.io for $3.99 or try the demo.
Tristam - Who We Are - Monstercat
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Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.