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I had to look it up:

> Infocom games are text adventures where users direct the action by entering short strings of words to give commands when prompted

Sounds to me these games will soon be made irrelevant by upcoming LLM tech. Am I missing something?



>Sounds to me these games will soon be made irrelevant by upcoming LLM tech.

On the contrary, this is exactly how they will sell LLM tech to the greybeads. Look at what Square enix tried to pull off this year with the Portpotia Serial Murder Case's "remake".

Interactive Ficion in the 2020's is the niche of niches, but they've been trying for decades to produce what ChatGPT is seemingly making possible. If/when MS pursues why not use one of the OG IP's to sell such an experiment?


Nerd nostalgia, these games are from the 80s/90s and it's about making them freely available under a Creative Commons or similar license.


It was a joke.


Aha, as a non-gamer perhaps I should just stay out of this thread :)


I refuse to believe that there are any non-gamers on HN.




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