[SOLVED] Favourite Text Adventures for Ubuntu

[Rytron]

Hi,
What are your favourite text adventures?
Please also state if they are .z5 files and play under Frotz.
If you state any other text adventures please state their file type and the program they need to run with.

Please post only text adventure(s) that are freeware and in your opinion merit at least 9/10+.

Thank you.

[Cappy]

I've definitely liked the "Enchanter series" (Infocom) the most.
Enchanter was the first and considered Normal difficulty.
Sorcerer was Medium Hard.
Spellbreaker was Expert difficulty.

Frotz was actually named from a spell in the series ;)

I liked it a lot more than the Zork series because of the spell based puzzle solving.

[compiledkernel]

Zork was classical in the Reference to text based play, well that and I used to play a Text Based James Bond game a ways back, have forgotten the name.

Though realistically Nethack is itself a Text based game, but im not sure if thats what your looking for (and really Angband and all of its derivatives fall there as well).

On the flip side of all that, the Emacs client used to hold a Text adventure called dunnet, and Ive played it (thus showing my age).

[desertboy]

It has to be hitch hikers guide to the galaxy

[matthewcraig]

Check out the one called Anchorhead. It just won a bunch of awards last year.

[matthewcraig]

Found another text adventure (http://playthisthing.com/photopia) that the reviewer said was so good he cried.

Turns out there is a really active community for Interactive Fiction. There's been a lot of work since Zork. You just don't hear about it because there's no marketing.

[Rytron]

Found another text adventure (http://playthisthing.com/photopia) that the reviewer said was so good he cried.

Turns out there is a really active community for Interactive Fiction. There's been a lot of work since Zork. You just don't hear about it because there's no marketing.

I think IF is very much under rated.

[Foster Grant]

I liked it a lot more than the Zork series because of the spell based puzzle solving.

Careful. Go around spouting sentiments like that and you could get eaten by a grue. :)

[Artificial Intelligence]

I got some few in the list (more to come)
http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/games:adventure
sub-catogory: Classic Adventure

I don't know if it's that kind you are looking for.

[Malcolm]

I think IF is very much under rated.

So true. A well made text adventure is the greatest interactive experience for me.

[Grishka]

Interactive fiction archive: http://ifarchive.org/.
Interactive fiction wiki: http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Main_Page.
not that I'd think that anyone who likes text adventures wouldn't know these pages.

[anathema415]

How can I play some of these old text based games on Hardy? I've never played them, but would love to try Zork, planetfall, etc...

[Seren]

I'd like to recommend http://ifdb.tads.org as a good source of IF.

Basically to play IF, you need two things :
- 1 interpreter
- 1 game file

There is different concurrent format.

To play Inform games ( which are usually *.z5 files) you can use frotz (which I think is in the repositories).

and then to use it, you just type


frotz mygame.z5



Personnaly, I use the gargoyle interpreter (http://ccxvii.net/gargoyle/) which supports multiple formats. A deb file for gargoyle can be found here (http://ifiction.free.fr/index.php?id=iflinux). (bottom of the page). This deb works on Hardy.

And like someone else in the thread, I do recommend Anchorhead (http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=op0uw1gn1tjqmjt7) which is a well crafted and rather scary game. It is also rather harder, you'll probably need some hints or the walkthrough for the last part.

[anathema415]

I'd like to recommend http://ifdb.tads.org as a good source of IF.

Basically to play IF, you need two things :
- 1 interpreter
- 1 game file

There is different concurrent format.

To play Inform games ( which are usually *.z5 files) you can use frotz (which I think is in the repositories).

and then to use it, you just type




Personnaly, I use the gargoyle interpreter (http://ccxvii.net/gargoyle/) which supports multiple formats. A deb file for gargoyle can be found here (http://ifiction.free.fr/index.php?id=iflinux). (bottom of the page). This deb works on Hardy.

And like someone else in the thread, I do recommend Anchorhead (http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=op0uw1gn1tjqmjt7) which is a well crafted and rather scary game. It is also rather harder, you'll probably need some hints or the walkthrough for the last part.

Thank You!

[Apex_G]

This might be out of context, but how do you get/install Frotz. I heard it's terminal based, and I'm new to ubuntu....
Any help would be appreciated :popcorn:

[Rytron]

This might be out of context, but how do you get/install Frotz. I heard it's terminal based, and I'm new to ubuntu....
Any help would be appreciated :popcorn:

Help is at hand.
Go to System > Administration > Synaptic Packet Manager
Click on the search button.
Type in Frotz
You will get two results back.
Right click on Frotz and mark for installation.
Hit the apply button and Frotz will be installed.
To start frotz go to terminal and type frotz and a space and then the full path to game and hit return. The games end in .z5 and .z8
Hope this helps.