I didn't even know what a parser game was before clicking on this jam! But I'm so glad I did because I love the genre. I'm trying to turn an RPG game I made when I was a child to play with my cousins into a parser game. We loved that game, and now that we're not kids anymore, I didn't want the idea to die there. It's a big challenge because the whole world is set in my native language based on my culture, so making an English version seems hard. Anyways, as I said, I'm totally new to parser and text adventure games in general, so if you have any tips, helpful links, or some cool games I can play to familiarize myself with the genre, or anything, I'd appreciate it. GL to everyone!
Hello BlackRaiinbow!
Nice project that in honour of your childhood :D
I would say that the best place to ask this would be some of the specific "Parser Games" forums (also knowns as "Interactive Fiction").
In English language i visit IntFiction.org. I'm sure that you will be able to find there all the information you need, and more voices and better prepared than mine ^.^
There you will also find information about other Parser competitions, and about many games. I also recommend you visit previous years ParserComp Jam games to see how they work.
Just to be curious, where are you from? As far as I know we already have Spanish (myself) and Swedish people arround here :)
Tell us if you finally move foward with the project!
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Good luck with your game. Start with something small or you'll run out of time. The text adventure community is small, but very active and there's always someone that can help you out. Here's a few links to get you started:
Forum for help, competitions, requests for beta testers and anything IF related: https://intfiction.org/
Database of IF games: https://ifdb.org/
Archive of (mostly modern) IF games: http://www.ifarchive.org/
Database of game maps and solutions: https://solutionarchive.com/
General info on IF: https://www.ifwiki.org/Main_Page
The most recently finished comp with parser games written for beginners: Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2022
ParserComp 2021: https://itch.io/jam/parsercomp-2021
Welcome to the jam!
The other replies give you all the information you need to get started. If you're planning to use an existing game engine rather than rolling your own, I recommend Adventuron as it's beginner friendly and quite easy to get a game up and running quickly (and there's an active Discord community).
Good luck!