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   Mⱺ℠ (nevali@troet.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 09:56:48 JST Mⱺ℠

   what's the best open source (as in actual open source not just abandonware or reverse-engineered) interactive fiction out there? what would have blown the minds of those of us who grew up on 8-bit micros or spent days at uni in front of green and amber-screened serial terminals

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     Mⱺ℠ (nevali@troet.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 09:56:46 JST Mⱺ℠

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     like if i were to write a snazzy new OSS interactive fiction interpreter for some reason, like maybe i swapped out the Infocom-style text parsing for a large language model or something, what would be the game i’d bundle in the package to showcase it?

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     Mⱺ℠ (nevali@troet.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 09:56:47 JST Mⱺ℠

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     presumably Linux distributions that care about licensing (e.g., Debian) just bundle whatever fairly random sets of sample fiction the package maintainers could dig up that say something explicit and compatible

     ifdb doesn’t appear to have any means to let you search by predefined license

     plenty of places will point me at open source IF *tools*, but open source IF *games* is trickier

     Valerie Aurora repeated this.