I’ve had a connection with text adventures for a long time, coming back to the format year after year. For the most part I’m not a player of text adventures, but instead an enthusiast for implementations thereof. I’ve talked before about using this as a way to learn a new language and to learn about parsers, but I also just like making them, an effort that has shaded off from actual plausible implementations into mildly unusual attempts at the format. The latest of these is to just host the world in the filesystem.¹

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