Text adventure template: build it step by step
Three rooms, two nouns, one verb that works in more than one place. Solve the puzzle by typing. No mouse. Story to game is where a sentence becomes the next room.
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The sentence you type
"Make a text adventure. Start with three rooms, two objects and one puzzle solved by typing."
The brief the AI writes back
First playable: three rooms, two objects and one puzzle solved by typing. The loop to get right: read, type a command, read the result.
Build, play, adjust
Compare with the games that define the genre: Zork (Infocom, 1980), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Infocom, 1984) and A Dark Room (Doublespeak Games, 2013).
What makes it finished
A typed command can succeed, fail honestly, and be tried again in the same room.
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