I just started programming my own text adventures, and I can say that some people in the IF community are really arrogant, I made a retro styled text adventure in 2 weeks for a class project and everyone had so much fun playing it so I uploaded it and
started joining IF communities so I could promote it, my future games and learn more about IF. I was posting about working on conversational AI for NPCs, a pet project of mine and this guy starts hating on my game I made a year ago because he says it
doesn't have any of the features that I'm talking about working on for my future projects, basically I made a bunch of different posts about 2 different projects and he decided to lump it all together and hate on it. He said my game was retro and I
needed to go back and learn what IF used to mean, I replied that if my game was retro wouldn't I need to learn about modern IF? He complained there was no prose in my game, even though he admitted to never playing it, he just based everything on the pics
I posted, so because the 5 pics I had posted didn't show lots of prose he said the entire game did not have any, he rated my game 1 and gave it a bad review, the jokes on him though his trolling gave the game more publicity :P here is my game for anyone
interested:
http://gamejolt.com/search/games?q=epic%20prose https://www.facebook.com/epicProse/
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