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Comment by chewychewy | Hacker News Reader

Zork for XBOX in 4K coming to Game Pass.

I bet you could use some kind of generative AI to automatically render images of each scene from a text adventure.

Somebody already did this for Zork though I can’t find the link at the moment. When I looked at it, it was interesting, but not particularly good. I’m sure it would get better in time.

It was AdventurImagen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpCrBBj6AWE

this exists as a plugin for a popular MUD client (MUSHClient) already, it's pretty neat.

I wonder if younger people would play these games if they were fully graphical, as in all rooms have graphics, animations, objects disappear when you get them etc.

I got my son to play the text adventures for some 30 minutes, but he lost interest and went to play Roblox... In another instance, I got him to type a full 100-200 command walkthrough while I read the commands, he enjoyed it but didn't want to do it again.

I'm sure ChatGPT+DALLE would do a decent job of it, as long as one of the scenes doesn't accidentally trip its badness filter.

I'm working on this right now actually!

here's a screenshot https://imgur.com/a/a1S2Mb0.png

it will be part of https://cosmictrip.space when it is done, hopefully soon!

GPT-4 generates the games themselves, the turns as well as optional action butons, and also generates DALL-E image prompts for each turn. DALL-E generates just based on the current turn right now but I'm working on adding context.

or they could pay an artist to draw them

Or you pay an artist to draw you playing the game.

I don't remember turtles in Zork

You know what, I'd play that!

Give me a new Zork story, great font, great music, I'd be all over it.

Obviously you'd chose actions from a list due to the controller, but with progressive disclosure you wouldn't really feel like cheating the game.

I don't think there is enough meat in the zork games without the interesting aspect of figuring out exactly what one can do and open ended input via the keyboard.

I'm looking forward to the new IAP hint system!

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