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I am trying to make a text based adventure game. It will give the player choices when selected will take the story forward. It should be in a scroll format and not like the one "Choice of Games" make. If you have played "Lifeline" then you would know what I mean...

So my question is,
Should I use an xml layout or create my own view for making such a game? If I use an xml layout, then is Scrollview the only option I have to make it happen? And if creating a new view is a better option, what methods should I use to make it scrollable?
 
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LV426 said:
Haha! Intrigued by that I did some searching. Is this what you meant?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure

There was a time when this was the most fun you could have with a computer.
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Yeh, that's exactly what I meant, "text based adventure game"...LOL

And it wasn't your computer, it was usually a university's extremely expensive time-share system, and you played on a teletype or VDU. :thumbsupdroid:

Colossal Cave Adventure is available for Android of course.
 
mikedt said:
"There is a shiny brass lamp nearby."
TAKE LAMP



Yeh, that's exactly what I meant, "text based adventure game"...LOL

And it wasn't your computer, it was usually a university's extremely expensive time-share system, and you played on a teletype or VDU. :thumbsupdroid:

Colossal Cave Adventure is available for Android of course.
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Oh God teletypes. They had those things at my Uni hall of residence. What a pain to use.
When I did my A-level, the college had a PDP-11. We had to submit our COBOL programs to the men in white coats, who would batch compile them overnight. The next morning we got back the results - often a compile error because we'd missed a dot on a line somewhere.
Compare that situation to today, with real time syntax checking IDEs. It's like another world, how did anyone write any programs?! I know what you're going to say - they were much more diligent, and we've become lazy :)
Thankfully I escaped the punched card era.
 
Ohh... You guys seem to be from an altogether different era (No offense). I had heard about collosal cave... I just never had the oppurtunity to play something like that though...

Is it available for android?? I am trying to play as many such games as possible as it may give me more ideas about how to go through the making of the game.
 
Thanks I will look it up.

Have you played lifeline for android? If yes then what do you think they used, an xml layout or their own view?? I am really trying to find a way how they went through it.
 
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