Well, my first instinct on the design puzzle was something among the lines of http://xkcd.com/149/ I was a little surprised to get a "no such command" error, especially after finding out the actual solution...

The aesthetics does not make for easy reading. Never was interested in text adventures in the first place but the blurriness made me quit the game faster than I would have.

Nice idea, but can you allow folks to turn off the fake flickering/display faults. It's hugely distracting. Also the CGA style font is kinda hard to read, perhaps you could allow folks to:

- change the font

- adjust the brightness and contrast

Back in the day when I was a mini-computer engineer our terminal screens were much nicer and crisp.

I had originally submitted this a few days ago (see: http://imgur.com/uCRZuU4), after learning about it from a game-related site (http://www.gnomeslair.com/2014/06/avaus-text-adventure-so-yo...). Never made it to the front page at all. I'm glad it did, eventually.

Should I stick a "Show HN" the next time I find something? I'm hesitant to do so since I wasn't the one who wrote it.

One fun idea for you is to theme it as an IDE and code rather than a classic terminal text adventure?

I tried it for an LD a while back but http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Th... didn't really get the text itself to look like code from a squint test, nor get syntax completion finished in time.

I really hate green on black and would like to read in positive mode (black on white).

Thanks! That was some nice entertainment for the morning :)