I thought they were called text adventures.
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They are. That is correct.
I never considered there could be libraries for building these games, just assumed any game would always start from scratch. I've not heard of any.
I made an attempt to build my own from scratch a long time ago, and I ended up with an engine in code and a yaml file to configure everything. I wonder if there are solutions where you dont write code directly, but you write plaintext configuration files and just pump it into the game engine.
Take a look at INSTEAD.
Seems very interesting, but I'm not understanding if there is a way to "compile" the game or if the interpreter is needed to play it
You need an app (launcher) to play.
Thanks!
Sounds like you are trying to develop a MOO, i think you might find this interesting
Also if you wanted to develop one yourself I did a project a long time ago based on [https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2068896](this guide for developing a language in Racket lisp to generate text adventure games) which might fit the requirements