One of the oldest genres in video games is adventure. Need proof? The earliest ones didn't even feature graphics or visuals of any kind and were entirely text-based. From the early days of Zork and ...

Hobbyist game developers and tinkerers who love the original Game Boy have a cool new book to pore over. Game Boy Coding Adventure is the latest release from No Starch Press, a publisher specializing ...

Today, fresh out of the Microsoft Research Montreal lab, comes an open-source project called TextWorld. TextWorld is an extensible Python framework for generating text-based games. Reinforcement ...