I thought they were called text adventures.
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They are. That is correct.
You can look into inform6 and inform7 (totally different beasts, they are not older/newer versions of the same thing), TADS, or something like Quest perhaps. There should be more but these are the first that come to mind.
This. Inform was the language/platform developed back in the day to author/interpret Z-code, the basis for Infocom’s text adventures. It went beyond just that in more recent versions, but it is designed from the ground up for text adventure creation.
Inform* is not foss afaik, right? I tried Quest and it is way too graphical, I'd prefer a more code-oriented one. Definitely will look into TADS, seems very interesting!
I never considered there could be libraries for building these games, just assumed any game would always start from scratch. I've not heard of any.
I made an attempt to build my own from scratch a long time ago, and I ended up with an engine in code and a yaml file to configure everything. I wonder if there are solutions where you dont write code directly, but you write plaintext configuration files and just pump it into the game engine.
Take a look at INSTEAD.
Seems very interesting, but I'm not understanding if there is a way to "compile" the game or if the interpreter is needed to play it
You need an app (launcher) to play.
Thanks!