counterfeit-monkey

Counterfeit Monkey by Emily Short. https://github.com/i7/counterfeit-monkey/releases Maps and cheat sheets are in the "Counterfeit Monkey.materials" folder. If you don't want to install a parser on your computer, you can play it online by putting the link to the .gblorb file into https://iplayif.com/ I.e. https://iplayif.com/?story=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fi7%2Fc... Modern games are generally going to be more approachable than old ones. Tastes have changed considerably. In the days when you couldn't pull up a walkthrough in a few seconds, taking days to think of the next step was part of the fun, and just getting permanently stuck at some point was fairly common. Also, letting the player keep going even after they have done something to make the game unwinnable is now considered very uncool. Navigation is much less tedious these days as

Various old skool text adventure games are open source (-ish, in some cases). If you are already experienced with them then "Counterfeit Monkey" takes it to the next level with a great twist based on anagram-like magic/technology for turning objects into other things by adding/removing letters from their name: > Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship. > Since then, Atlantis has been the world's greatest center for linguistic manipulation, designing letter inserters, word synthesizers, the diminutive affixer, and a host of other tools for converting one thing to another. Inventors worldwide pay heavily for that technology, which is where a smuggler and industrial espionage agent such as yourself ca

Wow, this is embarrassing. I've read plenty of Inform 7 source code (see e.g. https://github.com/i7/counterfeit-monkey/blob/master/Counter... ). And I read Knuth's book "Literate Programming" in formative years and loved the idea. But somehow I never connected Inform 7 as generically a live, working modern example of literate programming. That's pretty silly! The language is full of dozens of good examples of worked programs, albeit nearly all written as one kind of text in/text out/parser interaction. One difference I maybe see is that Knuth writes a book about a program which is built in a very didactic fashion such that every single bit of source code is commented with a detailed explanation of what it does. In real life, though, most Inform games have a bunch of utility code that is not super well commented but is needed to glue thing