Solitary Sand, written in just two days, has no graphics, only audio: you're blinded after a shipwreck or kidnapping, and must explore an island with only sound and descriptions of touch sensations to guide you. It's not interactive fiction: you navigate with an FPS-style control system. You can pick up one thing at a time, and there are multiple endings. Unfortunately, all I've managed to do is find some rope, garbage, driftwood and a strange metal object. Then I drowned. [Ludum Dare via Free Indie Games]
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Solitary Sand, a text-based survival game
Solitary Sand, written in just two days, has no graphics, only audio: you're blinded after a shipwreck or kidnapping, and must explore an island with only sound and descriptions of touch sensations to guide you. It's not interactive fiction: you navigate with an FPS-style control system. You can pick up one thing at a time, and there are multiple endings. Unfortunately, all I've managed to do is find some rope, garbage, driftwood and a strange metal object. Then I drowned. [Ludum Dare via Free Indie Games]
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This would be cool for a smartphone. Why don’t people port old text-based gamed to smartphone? I’d love that.
On iOS check out Frotz, it’s a fantastic and free interpreter for old and new text adventures:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/frotz/id287653015?mt=8
Also with the new ipad you can use dictation to speak what you want to do in Frotz. It works really well and is an interesting way to play text adventures.
A hollow voice says “PLUGH”…. The classic Colossal Cave is free on the Android market.
-You have stumbled into an Yronic Trap. All around you, people laugh at the fact you did not smell the distinct scent of Yrony. How do you wish to proceed?
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Ah, I see; I thought you were a little older.
For a z-machine interpreter for Android, try Twisty: http://goo.gl/B3T0d
Or try still-living interactive text games, like MUDs and MUSHes listed at http://www.topmudsites.com – or, if you love space opera, definitely try OtherSpace at http://www.jointhesaga.com
Umm… link please? There doesn’t seem to be a link anywhere in the article, and googling is not helping much.
It appears to be hosted on somebody’s Dropbox share. There’s no telling whether the bandwidth allocation will stand up to Boing Boing traffic: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/46225469/LD22/index.html
I found this link on what appears to be the author’s blog: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/author/cross/
http://www.freeindiegam.es/2012/03/solitary-sand-cross/
I think this might be game here. I am now off to go play it instead of getting work done.
So the island’s round, and there’s a smokestack thing in the middle that you can’t really interact with? I don’t understand. I must not be good at these things.
Pick up the phone booth.
neat. some simple graphics for at least the direction of the breeze might be nice to represent rudimentary touch and proprioception. the sparseness and use of sound remind me of the “Alien” tactical game for the C=64, which was too terrifying and difficult for me at the time.
http://www.alexandershen.com/blog/2011/12/19/ios-development-voiceover-and-click-behavior.html – This particular approach makes me think of this particular game. I’d love to hear more audio based games.
I read the text feed in the article: “You pick up metallic object, it emits small amount of heat”.
I immediately thought “Great, you get tricked into picking up radioactive uranium in the first room of the game, giving yourself cancer from the start! What a sneaky programmer.”