Comment by 🐐 drh3xx
Re: "What kind of entertainment does well in text-based form?"
Word based puzzles, choose your own adventure/Interactive fiction and simple dice games.
2025-03-03 · 1 year ago
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🚀 stack · 2025-03-05 at 15:26:
Then there are crude attempts of to bully others, bigweb style, out of habit I suppose, like
— bbs.geminispace.org/u/clseibold/26047
These can be amusing.
Many posts on the Atheism thread are a riot.
And then there are the misguided efforts to 'make Gemini popular'...
👻 mediocregopher [...] · 2025-03-05 at 18:23:
No better entertainment on this earth than internet message board drama 🍿
👻 darkghost · 2025-03-05 at 19:59:
There are certain internet circles where you can toss an argumentative hand grenade by suggesting which is the best heirloom tomato.
🚀 jsreed5 · 2025-03-06 at 15:58:
If you want to stay strictly within language-based entertainment (words, numerals, etc.), all I can really think of are interactive stories and word puzzles. If you're willing to make ASCII drawings with preformatted text, the possibilities open up a lot more. That's what many current Gemini games do, such as (shameless plug) my Gemini-based Rubik's Cube.
🌲 Half_Elf_Monk · 2025-03-08 at 19:39:
I loved playing forum mafia on the webdiplomacy forums. so much fun. The game is 100% text based, and would work pretty well in this format/protocol. You'd have to figure out how to set up a decently usable forum experience, and mayybe find a way to do word/paragraph/post counts, along with scraping the forum for certain commands (like #vote {playername} and so forth).
🌲 Half_Elf_Monk · 2025-03-08 at 19:39:
@jsreed the rubik's cube link looks broken...?
Original Post
What kind of entertainment does well in text-based form? — What kind of entertainment could be offered to Gemini users that would work well in text-based form?