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A simple text-based adventure game

7 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2021-04-26 · latest 2026-05-12

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  1. …by my ZX Spectrum: https://github.com/skx/gobasic And later still I wrote an adventure game in Z80: https://github.com/skx/lighthouse-of-doom The Spectrum was how I got into programming, and despite the limitations I have fond memories.
    comment by stevekemp · 2026-05-12 · in Boriel BASIC
  2. …even upload a zipfile of my game, but the escape-codes for clearing the screen don't work, sadly: https://github.com/skx/lighthouse-of-doom
  3. …But the end result is that you can run it on any CP/M system you have around! (Or online.) https://github.com/skx/lighthouse-of-doom/
    comment by stevekemp · 2025-10-21 · in The Greatness of Text Adventures
  4. …both type but also read, and I implemented a simple text-based adventure game for him to play with: https://github.com/skx/lighthouse-of-doom/ As for him using the computer? Nowdays he watches videos of minecraft stuff on youtube, but has…
  5. …appeal to me as much as Dizzy did, or the old-school fighting games. https://github.com/skx/gobasic https://github.com/skx/lighthouse-of-doom/
    comment by stevekemp · 2024-12-21 · in Ascending Mount FujiNet