‘text game’ directory
- See Also
- Gwern
- Links
- “The CRPG Renaissance, Part 5: Fallout 2 & Baldur’s Gate ”, Maher 2025
- “The CRPG Renaissance, Part 3: TSR Is Dead… ”
- “OpenAI O1-Pro Deep Research Generated Age of Empires 2 [And WH40k Etc] Playthroughs ”, Simfish 2025
- “Clio: Privacy-Preserving Insights into Real-World AI Use ”, Anthropic 2024
- “Trajectoid ”, Weinersmith 2024
- “Retro No More: Interactive Fiction of the Early Comp Era ”
- “Industrious Dice [Minimizing Pip Counts on Still-Functional Dice] ”
- “Tabbed out on the Oregon Trail ”
- “Can Language Models Serve As Text-Based World Simulators? ”, Wang et al 2024
- “Documented and Actual Play in Role-Playing Games ”, Jones 2024
- “Self-Supervised Behavior Cloned Transformers Are Path Crawlers for Text Games ”, Wang & Jansen 2023
- “Generative Agent-Based Modeling With Actions Grounded in Physical, Social, or Digital Space Using Concordia ”, Vezhnevets et al 2023
- “CALYPSO: LLMs As Dungeon Masters’ Assistants ”, Zhu et al 2023
- “Multi-Party Chat (MultiLIGHT): Conversational Agents in Group Settings With Humans and Models ”, Wei et al 2023
- “Most Language Models Can Be Poets Too: An AI Writing Assistant and Constrained Text Generation Studio ”, Roush et al 2022
- “Social Simulacra: Creating Populated Prototypes for Social Computing Systems ”, Park et al 2022
- “TextWorldExpress: Simulating Text Games at One Million Steps Per Second ”, Jansen & Côté 2022
- “Down and Across: Introducing Crossword-Solving As a New NLP Benchmark ”, Kulshreshtha et al 2022
- “Automated Crossword Solving ”, Wallace et al 2022
- Word Golf, Xia 2021
- “AI Chains: Transparent and Controllable Human-AI Interaction by Chaining Large Language Model Prompts ”, Wu et al 2021
- “1992: Silverwolf ”, Reed 2021
- “AI Dungeon 2 Public Disclosure Vulnerability Report—GraphQL Unpublished Adventure Data Leak ”, AetherDevSecOps 2021
- “How We Accidentally Gave Our Bots Their Personalities ”, Latitude 2021
- “Collaborative Storytelling With Large-Scale Neural Language Models ”, Nichols et al 2020
- “AI Dungeon 2 Colab Notebook ”, Walton 2019
- AI Dungeon 2, Walton 2019
- “AI Dungeon 2: My Musical Troupe of Orcs Uses Music to Advance Orc Rights ”, Walton 2019
- “LIGHT: Learning to Speak and Act in a Fantasy Text Adventure Game ”, Urbanek et al 2019
- Feast of Legends: Rise from the Deep Freeze, Wendy’s 2019
- “Mastering the Dungeon: Grounded Language Learning by Mechanical Turker Descent ”, Yang et al 2017
- “These Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of Choose Your Own Adventure Books: If You Decide to See More, Click on This Story ”, Laskow 2017
- “Welcome to Armageddon! A Philosophy of ‘Permadeath’ in the Multiuser Dungeon ”, Lucas 2017
- “The Curious World of The Hobbit: an Early Example of a Dynamic Gameworld ”, Stuckey 2017
- Dungeons & Dragons Teams up With My Little Pony, Dupuis 2016
- “Elite for Emacs ”
- “Complex Game Worlds, Simple Interfaces ”, Hracek 2015
- “48% of Americans Know What Gamebooks Are ”, Hracek 2015
- “Scheherazade: Crowd-Powered Interactive Narrative Generation ”, Li & Riedl 2015b
- Nessus: Adventures in the Dead City at the Twilight of Urth, mellonbread 2015
- “Gadsby: Wikip█dia’s Lost Lipogram ”, Miller 2015
- “Pathfinder Chronicles: Classic Horrors Revisited § Derro ”, Jacobs et al 2010
- “Choose Your Own Adventure: One Book, Many Readings ”, Swinehart 2009
- US Patent #1, Ernest 2001
- “GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary ”
- “Design a Role-Playing Game Using 200 Words or Less. ”
- “AI Dungeon 2: Dragon Model Upgrade—You Can Now Play AI Dungeon With One of the Most Powerful AI Models in the World. ”
- “Introducing AI Dungeon Translate: AI Dungeon Players Can Now Translate Their Stories into Emojis by Just Clicking a Button. [ 🤔 💯 🤷♂️ 🤔 🤔 🤔 💯] ”
- “Extreme D&D DIY: Adventures in Hypergeometry, Procedural Generation, and Software Development (Part 1) ”, Achmiz 2025
- “
roguetype: The First Ever Rogue-Like Written in the OCaml Type System ”, Octachron 2025 - “1985: A Mind Forever Voyaging ”
- “2005: Shades of Doom ”
- “2013: A Family Supper, by Aaron A. Reed ”
- “2015: Lifeline ”
- “2017: Universal Paperclips ”
- “2020: Scents & Semiosis, by Aaron A. Reed ”
- The Gostak
- “How to Cheat at Settlers of Catan by Loading the Dice ”
- “Everyone Is John ”
- “Me ”, Swinehart 2025
- “The Story of Rogue ”
- “Behold, Mortal, the Origins of Robotfindskitten… ”
- “Japanese Play-By-Postcard RPGs: Net Games ”
- “ZIL and the Z-Machine ”
- “Britain’s Occult Uncle ”
- “Playing Deadline, Part 1 ”
- “Playing Deadline, Part 2 ”
- “Playing Deadline, Part 3 ”
- “Playing Deadline, Part 4 ”
- The Dennis Wheatley Crime Dossiers
- “The Computerized Hitchhiker’s ”
- “Mindwheel (Or, The Poet and the Hackers) ”
- “A Mind Forever Voyaging, Part 1: Steve Meretzky’s Interiors ”
- “A Mind Forever Voyaging, Part 2: Don’t Go Back to Rockvil ”
- “A Mind Forever Voyaging, Part 3: Through Strange Seas of Thought, Alone ”
- “Lovecraft on the Tabletop ”
- “Games on the Net Before the Web, Part 2: MUD ”
- “New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 1: Digging the Trenches ”
- “New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 3: A Renaissance Is Nigh ”
- “The Digital Antiquarian Table of Contents ”
- “Visible Thoughts Project and Bounty Announcement ”
- “/r/AIDungeon/ ”, Reddit 2025
- MelMitchell1
- jonathanfly
- nickwalton00
- voooooogel
- Sort By Magic
- Wikipedia (14)
- Miscellaneous
- Bibliography
See Also
Gwern
“Conferences As D&D Tabletops ”, Gwern 2025
“LLM Challenge: Write Non-Biblical Sentences ”, Gwern 2024
“Miscellaneous ”, Gwern 2009
“Choose-Your-Own-Adventure AI Dungeon Games ”, Gwern 2021
Links
“The CRPG Renaissance, Part 5: Fallout 2 & Baldur’s Gate ”, Maher 2025
“The CRPG Renaissance, Part 3: TSR Is Dead… ”
“OpenAI O1-Pro Deep Research Generated Age of Empires 2 [And WH40k Etc] Playthroughs ”, Simfish 2025
OpenAI o1-pro Deep Research generated Age of Empires 2 [and WH40k etc] playthroughs
“Clio: Privacy-Preserving Insights into Real-World AI Use ”, Anthropic 2024
“Trajectoid ”, Weinersmith 2024
“Retro No More: Interactive Fiction of the Early Comp Era ”
“Industrious Dice [Minimizing Pip Counts on Still-Functional Dice] ”
Industrious Dice [minimizing pip counts on still-functional dice] :
View External Link:
https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2024/10/17/industrious-dice/
“Tabbed out on the Oregon Trail ”
“Can Language Models Serve As Text-Based World Simulators? ”, Wang et al 2024
“Documented and Actual Play in Role-Playing Games ”, Jones 2024
“Self-Supervised Behavior Cloned Transformers Are Path Crawlers for Text Games ”, Wang & Jansen 2023
Self-Supervised Behavior Cloned Transformers are Path Crawlers for Text Games
“Generative Agent-Based Modeling With Actions Grounded in Physical, Social, or Digital Space Using Concordia ”, Vezhnevets et al 2023
“CALYPSO: LLMs As Dungeon Masters’ Assistants ”, Zhu et al 2023
“Multi-Party Chat (MultiLIGHT): Conversational Agents in Group Settings With Humans and Models ”, Wei et al 2023
Multi-Party Chat (MultiLIGHT): Conversational Agents in Group Settings with Humans and Models
“Most Language Models Can Be Poets Too: An AI Writing Assistant and Constrained Text Generation Studio ”, Roush et al 2022
“Social Simulacra: Creating Populated Prototypes for Social Computing Systems ”, Park et al 2022
Social Simulacra: Creating Populated Prototypes for Social Computing Systems
“TextWorldExpress: Simulating Text Games at One Million Steps Per Second ”, Jansen & Côté 2022
TextWorldExpress: Simulating Text Games at One Million Steps Per Second
“Down and Across: Introducing Crossword-Solving As a New NLP Benchmark ”, Kulshreshtha et al 2022
Down and Across: Introducing Crossword-Solving as a New NLP Benchmark
“Automated Crossword Solving ”, Wallace et al 2022
Word Golf, Xia 2021
“AI Chains: Transparent and Controllable Human-AI Interaction by Chaining Large Language Model Prompts ”, Wu et al 2021
“1992: Silverwolf ”, Reed 2021
“AI Dungeon 2 Public Disclosure Vulnerability Report—GraphQL Unpublished Adventure Data Leak ”, AetherDevSecOps 2021
AI Dungeon 2 Public Disclosure Vulnerability Report—GraphQL Unpublished Adventure Data Leak
“How We Accidentally Gave Our Bots Their Personalities ”, Latitude 2021
“Collaborative Storytelling With Large-Scale Neural Language Models ”, Nichols et al 2020
Collaborative Storytelling with Large-scale Neural Language Models
“AI Dungeon 2 Colab Notebook ”, Walton 2019
AI Dungeon 2, Walton 2019
“AI Dungeon 2: My Musical Troupe of Orcs Uses Music to Advance Orc Rights ”, Walton 2019
AI Dungeon 2: My Musical Troupe of Orcs Uses Music to Advance Orc Rights
“LIGHT: Learning to Speak and Act in a Fantasy Text Adventure Game ”, Urbanek et al 2019
LIGHT: Learning to Speak and Act in a Fantasy Text Adventure Game
Feast of Legends: Rise from the Deep Freeze, Wendy’s 2019
“Mastering the Dungeon: Grounded Language Learning by Mechanical Turker Descent ”, Yang et al 2017
Mastering the Dungeon: Grounded Language Learning by Mechanical Turker Descent
“These Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of Choose Your Own Adventure Books: If You Decide to See More, Click on This Story ”, Laskow 2017
“Welcome to Armageddon! A Philosophy of ‘Permadeath’ in the Multiuser Dungeon ”, Lucas 2017
Welcome to Armageddon! A philosophy of ‘permadeath’ in the multiuser dungeon
“The Curious World of The Hobbit: an Early Example of a Dynamic Gameworld ”, Stuckey 2017
The curious world of The Hobbit: an early example of a dynamic gameworld :
View PDF:
Dungeons & Dragons Teams up With My Little Pony, Dupuis 2016
“Elite for Emacs ”
“Complex Game Worlds, Simple Interfaces ”, Hracek 2015
“48% of Americans Know What Gamebooks Are ”, Hracek 2015
“Scheherazade: Crowd-Powered Interactive Narrative Generation ”, Li & Riedl 2015b
Scheherazade: Crowd-Powered Interactive Narrative Generation
Nessus: Adventures in the Dead City at the Twilight of Urth, mellonbread 2015
“Gadsby: Wikip█dia’s Lost Lipogram ”, Miller 2015
“Pathfinder Chronicles: Classic Horrors Revisited § Derro ”, Jacobs et al 2010
“Choose Your Own Adventure: One Book, Many Readings ”, Swinehart 2009
US Patent #1, Ernest 2001
“GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary ”
“Design a Role-Playing Game Using 200 Words or Less. ”
“AI Dungeon 2: Dragon Model Upgrade—You Can Now Play AI Dungeon With One of the Most Powerful AI Models in the World. ”
“Introducing AI Dungeon Translate: AI Dungeon Players Can Now Translate Their Stories into Emojis by Just Clicking a Button. [ 🤔 💯 🤷♂️ 🤔 🤔 🤔 💯] ”
“Extreme D&D DIY: Adventures in Hypergeometry, Procedural Generation, and Software Development (Part 1) ”, Achmiz 2025
“roguetype: The First Ever Rogue-Like Written in the OCaml Type System ”, Octachron 2025
roguetype: The first ever rogue-like written in the OCaml type system
“1985: A Mind Forever Voyaging ”
“2005: Shades of Doom ”
“2013: A Family Supper, by Aaron A. Reed ”
“2015: Lifeline ”
“2017: Universal Paperclips ”
“2020: Scents & Semiosis, by Aaron A. Reed ”
The Gostak
“How to Cheat at Settlers of Catan by Loading the Dice ”
“Everyone Is John ”
“Me ”, Swinehart 2025
“The Story of Rogue ”
“Behold, Mortal, the Origins of Robotfindskitten… ”
“Japanese Play-By-Postcard RPGs: Net Games ”
“ZIL and the Z-Machine ”
View External Link:
“Britain’s Occult Uncle ”
“Playing Deadline, Part 1 ”
“Playing Deadline, Part 2 ”
“Playing Deadline, Part 3 ”
“Playing Deadline, Part 4 ”
The Dennis Wheatley Crime Dossiers
“The Computerized Hitchhiker’s ”
“Mindwheel (Or, The Poet and the Hackers) ”
Mindwheel (or, The Poet and the Hackers) :
View External Link:
https://www.filfre.net/2014/03/mindwhell-or-the-poet-and-the-hackers/
“A Mind Forever Voyaging, Part 1: Steve Meretzky’s Interiors ”
A Mind Forever Voyaging, Part 1: Steve Meretzky’s Interiors :
“A Mind Forever Voyaging, Part 2: Don’t Go Back to Rockvil ”
“A Mind Forever Voyaging, Part 3: Through Strange Seas of Thought, Alone ”
A Mind Forever Voyaging, Part 3: Through Strange Seas of Thought, Alone :
“Lovecraft on the Tabletop ”
“Games on the Net Before the Web, Part 2: MUD ”
Games on the Net Before the Web, Part 2: MUD :
View External Link:
https://www.filfre.net/2017/12/games-on-the-net-before-the-web-part-2-mud/
“New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 1: Digging the Trenches ”
New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 1: Digging the Trenches :
“New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 3: A Renaissance Is Nigh ”
New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 3: A Renaissance is Nigh :
“The Digital Antiquarian Table of Contents ”
The Digital Antiquarian Table of Contents :
View External Link:
“Visible Thoughts Project and Bounty Announcement ”
“/r/AIDungeon/ ”, Reddit 2025
MelMitchell1
jonathanfly
nickwalton00
voooooogel
Sort By Magic
Annotations sorted by machine learning into inferred 'tags'. This provides an alternative way to browse: instead of by date order, one can browse in topic order. The 'sorted' list has been automatically clustered into multiple sections & auto-labeled for easier browsing.
Beginning with the newest annotation, it uses the embedding of each annotation to attempt to create a list of nearest-neighbor annotations, creating a progression of topics. For more details, see the link.
gamebooks
choose-adventure
text-adventure
Wikipedia (14)
Miscellaneous
/doc/fiction/text-game/2024-12-04-gwern-claude36-secondlifesentence-sls-square.svg:https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/v0.31:Creature_logic:View External Link:
https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/v0.31:Creature_logichttps://filiph.medium.com/skyrim-rendered-in-text-1899548ab2c4:https://notes.billmill.org/blog/2024/03/mitzVah_-_the__worst__pangrams_part_2.html:https://obie.medium.com/my-kids-and-i-just-played-d-d-with-chatgpt4-as-the-dm-43258e72b2c6https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/08/dungeons-dragons-critical-role-matthew-mercer-twitch.htmlhttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/ImprobableIslandhttps://wiki.improbableisland.com/doku.php?id=start#what_goes_in_the_wiki:https://www.accum.se/~stradh/dnd/mirror/Assorted/ADnD_netbook_of_sex.htmlhttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/quest-for-the-golden-owl-hidden-treasurehttps://www.eveonline.com/news/view/information-is-power-excel-releasehttps://www.fatherly.com/entertainment/choose-your-own-adventure-past-and-future:https://www.filfre.net/2024/03/the-rise-of-pomg-part-4-a-world-for-the-taking/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/19/the-enduring-allure-of-choose-your-own-adventure-bookshttps://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/08/31/dungeons-and-dragons-texas-death-row-tdcjhttps://www.tokyodev.com/articles/the-rise-and-fall-of-dnd-in-japan
Bibliography
2024-jones.pdf: “Documented and Actual Play in Role-Playing Games ”,https://aclanthology.org/2022.cai-1.2.pdf: “Most Language Models Can Be Poets Too: An AI Writing Assistant and Constrained Text Generation Studio ”,https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.04024: “Social Simulacra: Creating Populated Prototypes for Social Computing Systems ”,https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09665#bair: “Automated Crossword Solving ”,https://www.word.golf/: Word Golf,https://if50.substack.com/p/1992-silverwolf: “1992: Silverwolf ”,https://colab.research.google.com/github/nickwalton/AIDungeon/blob/master/AIDungeon_2.ipynb: “AI Dungeon 2 Colab Notebook ”,https://play.aidungeon.com/main/home: AI Dungeon 2,https://web.archive.org/web/20191127163535/http://www.aidungeon.io/2019/11/my-orc-band-and-our-quest-for-equal.html: “AI Dungeon 2: My Musical Troupe of Orcs Uses Music to Advance Orc Rights ”,