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May 16, 2018 at 21:24
There's something odd about screenshots of text adventure games. You capture the experience, but pictures of text is just so frowned upon in developer circles.

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Emergent behaviour of agents in early text adventure games (The Hobbit, released 1982): https://if50.substack.com/p/1982-the-hobbit