Improbable Island, one of the largest and longest-running online text adventures

I&#x27;m sure the game is good, but (not to say it&#x27;s bad, just haven&#x27;t had the time yet) the only part I&#x27;ve browsed for a significant period of time so far is the code of conduct, which I think is absolutely amazing and helped form a lot of my thinking around online communities: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.improbableisland.com&#x2F;coc.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.improbableisland.com&#x2F;coc.php</a><p>Edit: HN user drewzero1 also linked a long Mastodon thread written by the admin, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mstdn.social&#x2F;@ifixcoinops&#x2F;109354147264054179" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mstdn.social&#x2F;@ifixcoinops&#x2F;109354147264054179</a>, which is equally critical reading. I cannot recommend both highly enough.

The game&#x27;s wiki is amazing! It cleverly manages to avoid excessive spoilers while staying (mostly) useful by mandating that 20% of all content must be lies!

This is cool. I really enjoyed choose-your-own-adventure books when I was a kid a long time ago, part of the fun being that as you were flipping to the page you were supposed to go to, you&#x27;d come across wild sections of text you hadn&#x27;t quite visited, and it became a game to see if you could navigate all possible paths of the book. The really clever ones would have tantalizing pages that were unreachable paths just to frustrate you, or would trap you in infinite loops.

A while back, I had multiple people respond to my support request, with impeccable results, no back and fourth responding to automated messages. Which easily puts the game well above the bar set by many others.

I&#x27;ve never seen this before but I instantly love it! It has real Kingdom of Loathing vibes for me.

Was this maybe meant to be a link to the &quot;What even is this website, please help me&quot; in the bottom right? (Which it doesn&#x27;t seem to be possible to hyperlink to).. as it is this just throws you into.. that mess.

My main complaint - choice buttons extend faaar too far to the right<p>I&#x27;m clicking the website to be sure it&#x27;s in focus, but keep choosing an action

Tried it, didn&#x27;t like the feel of it.<p>Text adventures are wildly different from one to another and personal taste. This one didn&#x27;t grab me.

Is this a MUD? Can it be accessed through telnet or a MUD client?

It talks about building your own shrine as a player owned place using some drag drop interface but I can not find any more info on that. Not in the wiki or image search on Google.

Some basic searching says this is based on an even older game called Legend of the Green Dragon. Looks kinda cool honestly. Anyone know if the writing is okay?

I really just deeply do not care about the code of conduct but the game seems cool. I mean, the writing is very bad, but the thing&#x27;s got spirit

Does anybody know what the total word count is?

Anyone hook this up with a GAN yet to keep it peaceful yet make it visual?<p>Plus translations.

amazing.