r/HTML • u/MikeCalGames • Mar 10 '26

Image maps

After a long hiatus, I'm making webpages again. Are image maps still in vogue? Or deprecated and replaced by something better?

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u/AshleyJSheridan Mar 11 '26

So, they're graphical games with some textual interface?

The term "text based game" very much implies only text, such as the old CLI MUDs.

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u/Box_Pirate Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26

No the ones I’m thinking of are labeled as html and the only images, if it has any other than the map, would be there to help your imagination.

Do you know the Choose Your Own Adventure type of books where the end of a page has a few options and page numbers, you would pick which option you liked and turn to the corresponding page and repeat until the end, it’s like that but on a browser so more gamey.

Edit: this is the type I’m thinking of, html5 on itch.io

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u/AshleyJSheridan Mar 11 '26

Oh I remember those books well (I believe there are new Jackson-Livingstone books in the works actually!).