NOTE TO ALL PEOPLE WHO CAN'T PLAY IT: The JRE6 is required. Get it at http://www.java.com/en/ If your on Windows, use my .bat file. If your on Mac or Linux, run it from the console by "java -jar SmallWorld.jar" (Obviously after CD-ing into it's directory).
Made in ~10 hours due to complications...
It's a game styled after MUDs. but with only one player...
It's great to see a text-based adventure game in here. This game was a lot of fun. The writing was humorous and brief enough so that it can be played quickly by anyone.
Good work on the game - I couldn't figure out how to get past the guard though :) Would be nice to see tab-completion, and previous commands (press up to bring up last command), like bash :) Great job.
@blob The JRE6 is required. Get it at http://www.java.com/en/ If your on Windows, use my .bat file. If your on Mac or Linux, run it from the console by "java -jar SmallWorld.jar".
Nice! Glad I'm not the only one who went text-based. Very fun, solid humor, and multiple endings/secret passages: awesome! I got two different endings; how many are there total?
I like the humour in this one. It could use a bit less typing though (with shortened commands and saves). Also, a bug and a remark.
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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1 at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1937) at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1904) at df.smallworld.world.World.mainLoop(World.java:26) at df.smallworld.Main.main(Main.java:69)
Welcome to the land of food! Brave Adventurer, Before entering the land of food, may I know your name? >Yes
Nice to see a text game! When I double-clicked the jar, though, nothing happened. (I get stuff like that all the time, though, so maybe it's not your game).
It's great to see a text-adventure on here. I very much enjoyed the humour and multiple endings. Some of the verbs were a little obtuse but I figured them out. Great job!
Nice work. I second @aaronsnoswell, really wanted tab completion, and "standard" infocom commands: I or INV, L, TAKE, and some shortened item names... But those are really minor quibbles.
@MadGnomeGamer: Copy-pasting my earlier comment: @blob The JRE6 is required. Get it at http://www.java.com/en/ If your on Windows, use my .bat file. If your on Mac or Linux, run it from the console by "java -jar SmallWorld.jar".
One of the funniest (fun) and funniest (humor) games i played so far. Good references, too. I kinda like text adventures (remembers me of pnp rpgs), but they don't have rates on either graphics or audio. And i didn't get the link with the theme (altough i haven't got all the endings). Overall, quite good :)
YES text adventure, YES humour, YES watching the bread's every move, YES smelling the hobo, YES optional illness.
A few synonyms in the parser would have been awesome. I can't tell you how many times I typed "GET" and "TAKE" instead of "PICKUP." Reminds me of another game back in the day where you had to "FEELUNDER." You should probably pretend I didn't say that.
Anyway, that was great. If you keep making these, I'll keep playing them.
Lots of fun! Nice job.