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		Jd on July 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “A Dark Room” game open-sourced Very cool, thanks for your response. Btw, do you know any other online sources for good minimalist games (text adventures or otherwise) ? I'm trying to use some as a way to teach programming.

willvarfar on July 5, 2013 [–]

playing them or programming them? These days text adventures are called "interactive fiction" and if you google that, suddenly you find a lot of stuff, including http://www.theescapist.com/

But programming games? GameMaker might be a good bet.

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