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Tharser: Tiny Handheld Parser Game Engine's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Polished | #1 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Useful | #2 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| easy to learn | #3 | 2.000 | 2.000 |
Ranked from 1 rating. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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One can make a complex parser text adventure game for the Thumby handheld console, or wrap it in a homebrewed Thumby emulator, playable in browser.
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wow, do you type words on that thing? I opened the tool and was immediately unclear on what was going on so sorry for such a basic question.
It's to be expected as it is quite the oddity, in terms of game engines! This enables one to develop classic parser text adventures (think 80's "get lamp"-styled romps), only on a teeny handheld game device (the Thumby). I admit that this tool would likely appeal to the most niche of developers and severely challenge most of the rational sort--but I maintain that this is the very intent behind it. To expand the capabilities of whithered technology, stretching it in marvelously weird ways, and demonstrate what is possible on constrained hardware.
Thank you for giving it a peek and for hosting this jam!
Neat! more colossal cave than zork, it sounds like. I'm more into the mid-era infocom games personally (enchanter, the lurking horror). I'd hate to have to type those moderately longer sentences in here.