Text Adventure Games for Testers

• I wrote about text adventure games before, in the context of keyword driven automated execution.
• I studied AI, compilers, and interpreters because I wanted to understand Text Adventure Games.
• I've written more text adventure game parsers than I have adventure games. All lost to the mists of time in my cave of lost 'C' programming code.
• I once wrote a wonderful text layout algorithm for text adventure games that only worked on the Mono screen resolution of the Atari ST - it looked great. 
• I wrote a fantastic complex sentence handler with verbs, nouns, adverbs, pronouns, more nouns, conjunctions, etc. Brilliant parser. But no game.
• I once, with a friend of mine, started to pitch a point and click western horror sci-fi adventure game to a games publishing company—just as point and click adventure games faded and died as a genre.
• I wrote small games in "The Quill", GAC, STAC, and others.

And now...

I unleash upon the world.

"RestMud"

(That was dramatic by the way.)

A Text Adventure for the modern world, and to help improve your testing skills.

You'll have to:

• explore
• take things
• hoard things
• explore a maze
• map the world
• pay attention to clues
• use the Browser Dev Tools
• amend URLs to access commands not available from the GUI
• remember things
• possibly use REST tools (although for the Single Player Basic Test Game this isn't required)

Wow. I mean wow. Wow. Are you wowed yet? I'm wowed.

I played the test game again this morning and scored 1190... but, I made a mistake. Can you score higher than that?

Try it for yourself. Download it and see. You'll need Java 1.8, instructions are in the zip file.