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adarkroom
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adarkroom

A Dark Room - A Minimalist Text Adventure

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7Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
8.4KGitHub stars
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A Dark Room - A Minimalist Text Adventure

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year7 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-04-17 19:09:18 UTC to 2026-05-17 01:35:18 UTC.

0122015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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As best I can tell, it's this: https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/ -> https://github.com/doublespeakgames/adarkroom (MPLv2) although when searching for that phrase this is the one that materializes: https://adarkroom.github.io/ And then, for the "happy 10,000 day" folks: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=universal+paperclips -> https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/ but DO NOT CLICK THAT IF YOU HAVE AN ADDICTIVE PERSONALITY for just like "Multi Undergraduate Destroyer" it will "Oh, is that birds chirping I hear? Well, no problem, just one more click ..."
In Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game

Ask HN: Good text-based games like “A dark room” or “Dwarf fortress”?

I am doing some research around the simplest game interface (but the game doesn't have to be simple!), mostly strategy games but other types might work too. A great example is "A dark room". Another example (although it's a bit too complex for what I'm researching) would be Dwarf fortress. Any other intriguing games that you can share? Also, if you were to build such a game from scratch, what languages/platforms would you use? e.g. "A dark room" is open source and uses mostly Javascript [0]. Thanks for any suggestion! [0]: https://github.com/doublespeakgames/adarkroom
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