I fell in love with text adventure games in college, despite never having played any as a kid. Inform7 was my first foray into writing them. I even co-created a mod for TES IV: Oblivion recreating the original Zork.
As a developer I've tinkered with several iterations of the genre. The two pictured here are Adventure.js and its successor, RetroAdventure.
The former was a small, complete-ish attempt that is played in your browser. The latter is a work-in-progress system for playing text adventure games in your terminal. I ran into technical hurdles and shelved it, but would like to pick it back up at some point!
RetroAdventure.
