Would you play this?

[Dungeon-Master]

Providing the game was going to be evolved, would you play a game that would follow this time of game-play?

 

[KMageau]

Is this a new incarnation of the the old ZORK game with D&D influence? I don't think a text based game will be well recieved by the gaming community. With all the PBP and graphically enhanced web based games to play, I think thats where the players will go. I personally do not like text based computer games, to me they are boring. They do not provide the type of personal interaction and decision making I like to have when I play an RPG. Sorry for the negativity, If you do proceed on with your project, I wish you the best of luck.

 

[drnuncheon]

KMageau is dead wrong - thousands of people already do this on a regular basis. They're called MUDs and MUSHes (among other squishy-sounding names) and they range from places with coded combat like a text Everquest to free-form statless roleplay.

That said, I don't think you'd have a lot of crossover for a web-based game - it would lack the player interaction of the telnet-based MU*s, which is a large part of the attraction (that and the fact that the code is open source, letting anyone who wants to run a server.)

To succeed as a web-based game, you'd have to have a definite 'hook'. Kingdom of Loathing has this with its intentionally crappy graphics and wonky sense of humor, but it looks like you're going for a more 'serious' game.

J

 

[jmucchiello]

Perhaps you should also investigate the Interactive Fiction Archive. Yes, people still make text adventures. There's even an annual contest.

 

[Henry]

Moved to Software & Computers.