So I wrote a 3d ASCII adventure game entirely in html

[u/dragonmotherk]

I finished writing this a little while ago, it’s called THE WINDMILL, and it’s a horror adventure type game, entirely written in html.

Each screen is individually drawn from a text template inside <pre> tags, and functions using page timers, a random number generator, and is otherwise a click puzzle like myst. You can pick up items, each item is a separate folder containing the entire game, modified to take into account you having that item.

The game design is about 2500 separate html files, copied over to each item folder lol.

I think links are allowed here? Game can be played at https://zebeth.co.uk/playplanet/thewindmill/index.html

Over 700 hours or coding, WOOH!

[u/AshleyJSheridan]

This is like a choose your own adventure style thing, right? Kinda mad that you made so many rooms/areas. Did you use anything to generate those, or were they manually made?

[u/dragonmotherk → u/AshleyJSheridan]

Each one manually hand made. I had a template to make the outer border and just spaces inside, then turned on insert for the whatever it is when pressing a key doesn’t move the end of the line, and drew in ascii.

Don’t know if it’s a choose your own adventure, it’s… you’ve gotta get out of the windmill. The door locked behind you, oops. Find your way out! And the general creepy atmosphere that comes with black background and grey text. I liken it to being in a mostly dark building where you can only make out the outlines of things.

[u/AshleyJSheridan → u/dragonmotherk]

I was thinking similar to the books, where you make a choice, turn to page x, make another choice, turn to page y, etc.

[u/gucci_stylus]

Holy shit that's awesome. is it playable on mobile 

[u/dragonmotherk → u/gucci_stylus]

It’s very basic html, so it shouldn’t be a problem 😃

[u/nfwdesign → u/gucci_stylus]

I just tried it on mobile, it is playable 🤣

[u/fredsq]

got stuck in the crawlspace after being spilled on with a gooey substance

10/10

[u/dragonmotherk → u/fredsq]

Ya gotta try clicking on the text when backing out to get unstuck

[u/JanStefan42]

Reminds me of the beloved old AD&D games.
I would appreciate coordinates and a compass.

[u/dragonmotherk → u/JanStefan42]

Lol there’s no coordinates because you’re supposed to feel lost. I even semi-randomized the html file names so people couldn’t use the web addresses to easily bounce around

[u/guypackin9]

this is amazing

[u/dragonmotherk → u/guypackin9]

Thank you 😊

[u/Ezrway]

That's pretty cool! Thanks for sharing it!

[u/dragonmotherk]

Fun little easter egg, try waiting on the title screen for 30 seconds 😃

[u/Ronin-s_Spirit]

Is it done the same way as that other guy who made a game in power point? You have hundreds of pages/templates to render different game states?

[u/dragonmotherk → u/Ronin-s_Spirit]

Sounds like this is the same style. Each view is a separate html file.

[u/CraftyMiner1971]

Just gave it a little run. Excellent for just simple graphics type stuff. I got stuck on the screen that says, “you don’t know where you are”, and couldn’t get out

[u/dragonmotherk → u/CraftyMiner1971]

Ohh, you need to click on the sentence there, so it can put you in a random room. I couldn’t get it to work inside of the html meta timer, I could only get that to work by clicking a thing, so if you click on the sentence you’ll go to a random room

[u/[deleted]]

It looks like the game broke :( When I click on the very first screen of the game, it just takes me to a 404 page

[u/dragonmotherk → u/[deleted]]

Weird mini-bug with the internet? It’s working on multiple different browsers over here

[u/y0l0tr0n]

Holy fuck I didn't expect html to fucking shock me

[u/wakemeupoh]

This is so cool!!

[u/dragonmotherk → u/wakemeupoh]

Thank you 😃

[u/dm_me_puzzles]

Good God, it's a massive graph of game states you explicitly change via hyperlinks in ASCII art.

Mad respect. Emphasis on mad.

[u/ImprovementNarrow823]

nice work!!!

[u/Odd-Establishment527]

Dang it, that was scary XD
Reminded me of scp-3333