That's a great question. I wish I had an answer for you. I've been fascinated with text adventure games / interactive fiction for decades, but I haven't really been playing much lately. As such, I haven't spent much time thinking about what a "more modern" text game would look like.<p>At first blush, my instinct is to say that it wouldn't look much different from any reasonably contemporary MUD. I mean, "text is text" on one hand. But when you consider all the advances in tech since the origin of those text games, it's hard to imagine that there <i>aren't</i> some really cool new things that could be woven in.<p>At the very least, thanks for asking the question. Maybe it will spark an interesting idea for somebody here, and indirectly lead to the rise of the Next Great Text Adventure.