29th August 2003, 12:43 PM
Quote:It's POSSIBLE to say that a tex-based game is a videogame since you manipulate the words on the screen which ARE images projected onto the screen, BUT text-based game require you to IMAGINE what the text is describing to you as opposed to all other games that SHOWS you IMAGES of your enviroment.
Not exactly. Actually... no. Well, sort of. See, 2d games require you to IMAGINE the objects in 3d. 3d ones require you to IMAGINE the object as non-flat. So no, the fact that in text games there is one more level of imagining required isn't as big a deal as you think.
Quote:It would be like having two DVDs, one showed you the movie and the other just described to you what was happening. Technically they are both movies since you watch them on your TV, BUT they are still very different.
Of course they're different, but they are both still movies...
Quote:Exactly. One would be a movie and the other would be a video book or something like that. An e-book, if you will.
Well one other term for text-based adventures is 'Interactive Fiction' so that's not totally out there. Of course its quite different from any book because of how its fully interactive... so its not much more of a book than any other adventure game, really. As in it tells a story that a book could, but in a different form that makes it a game, not a book... I really hope you know the difference between games and books?
So that's that. But what about MUD's and text-based RPGs? Those are a totally different story, I'd say... and really can't be called 'books'. No way.