If you don’t follow the forums or my twitter then you’ve really missed out this past week. Some really cool stuff has been happening. First off, user “Mad Marky” who wrote what is still the latest Cymon’s Games game has been living up to his nomenclature with a text based zombie strategy game called Zombie Madness, or as I like to call it, “I MAED A TXT GAM3 W1TH ZOMBIES 1N IT!!!” and an all together new set of libraries for writing text based adventure games based on the allegro library. I feel like I’ve inadvertently made a monster here.

Next, and possibly cooler, prompted by user stalepie I’ve started writing a tutorial to help you learn to write a text adventure game modeled after the type-in books that inspired this site. Step 1, keep it simple, here’s a choose-your-own-adventure sort of game, use it to write your own. If anyone actually does take up this challenge and write their own choose your own adventure game based on this it’ll probably be the next Cymon’s Games game featured.

What I’m doing here with this tutorial is setting the groundwork for what Cymon’s Games is going to be, except with structured tutorials assisted by videos that are slightly endurable to watch and … a bit secret that I’ll be revealing pretty soon.