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I would be super interested to see it.

The aspect of text adventures or MUDs [0] that attracts me the most is the fact that you can actually move through a "textual landscape". Sorry, I have no better words to express it. Ditch all the quests and puzzles and fighting. Just immerse myself in a landscape evoked by words, that maybe adds some surreal elements, or other stuff that you couldn't express in a graphical way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD

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Some of the very first scripting I did was for a MUD, back in the day! I really like that feeling of painting a very subjective map of a place in my head, just based on text.

Part of the joke of this project, for me, was treating an entire country like a room in a MUD (e.g. "You are in the United States. Exits are Canada, Mexico...")

You can see the game here: https://travelsimulator.rodeo/

`/help` shows commands, but the important ones are `go` and `look`.

Nicely done! I love the design. And now I learned about the Tenkile in Papua New Guinea :-).

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