‘text game’ directory
See Also
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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- “AI Dungeon 2 Public Disclosure Vulnerability Report—GraphQL Unpublished Adventure Data Leak ”, AetherDevSecOps 2021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
- “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
- “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
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roguetype: The First Ever Roguelike 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
- “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 ”
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Gwern
“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 5: Fallout 2 & Baldur’s Gate
“The CRPG Renaissance, Part 3: TSR Is Dead… ”
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 ”
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]
“Tabbed out on the Oregon Trail ”
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
Feast of Legends: Rise from the Deep Freeze
“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
“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
Dungeons & Dragons Teams up With My Little Pony, Dupuis 2016
Dungeons & Dragons teams up with My Little Pony
“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
Nessus: Adventures in the Dead City at the Twilight of Urth
“Gadsby: Wikip█dia’s Lost Lipogram ”, Miller 2015
“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. ”
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 Roguelike Written in the OCaml Type System ”, Octachron 2025
roguetype: The first ever roguelike 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
“Everyone Is John ”
“Me ”, Swinehart 2025
“The Story of Rogue ”
“Behold, Mortal, the Origins of Robotfindskitten… ”
Behold, mortal, the origins of robotfindskitten…
“Japanese Play-By-Postcard RPGs: Net Games ”
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) ”
Mindwheel (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 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
“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
“Visible Thoughts Project and Bounty Announcement ”
Visible Thoughts Project and Bounty Announcement
“/r/AIDungeon/ ”, Reddit 2025
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