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Wikipedia: The Text Adventure

by alnitak on 7/3/17, 6:04 AM with 5 comments

• by amptorn on 7/4/17, 8:37 PM

  http://kevan.org/wikitext/United_States

  "You can go nowhere from here."

• by sharemywin on 7/5/17, 12:09 PM

  Not sure how you implemented it but seems like you could take the coordinates and translate them into directions, convert the images using, then pull the first paragraph all on the fly.

  look up the next closest coordiantes: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Freebase/...

  convert images: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/236692/how-do-i-convert-...

• by xnzakg on 7/4/17, 10:12 PM

  You may want to disable taking the letter "a" (and some other ones like "is" etc).

• by cjauvin on 7/4/17, 8:14 PM

  Interesting idea! I had created a vaguely related experiment a while ago, breeding gamebook content with interactive fiction:

  https://github.com/cjauvin/gamebook.js

• by tannhaeuser on 7/4/17, 8:35 PM

  Thanks for putting a smile on my face!