Text-Based Games

[Asphodel Terrarium]

Anybody here who is into text-based games? They are a.k.a. interactive fiction.

Ex: http://www.web-adventures.org/cgi-bin/webfrotz?s=Bear

 

[Trygon]

I've opened a white mailbox or two in my time, but I didn't get heavily into adventure games until King's Quest, and MUDs always seemed to be buried under a thousand layers of culture cruft. I did rather like a few of the 'Choice of' games on android, and Joe Dever's Lone Wolf was an AWESOME text-based story married to a full character sheet with frequent stat checks for various obstacles and a full-3D turn based combat system.

 

[Asphodel Terrarium]

I want to ask strategies. I know the bbasic commands such as "Look", "examine something", etc. but how do you know special commands that are unique to the game? :O Any tips?

 

[Trygon]

Pay attention to the game's vocabulary (If they give you a gun, you can probably 'shoot', for example), or use an external program to expose the game's language.