teptour

This repository is for the tEp virtual house tour, an interactive fiction ("text adventure") simulation of the house.

It uses the textadv-js engine, which was more-or-less written for teptour.

Visit it!

Vision

Interactive fiction is unconstrained by geometry, space, and time. This means it is possible to fill it with layers of accreted history: for example, it's possible to add rooms that are back-in-time-from other rooms in addition to the usual cardinal directions. It means it's also ok if virtual tep doesn't accurately depict tEp as it currently is.

I imagine thet teptour should also be something like the old point-and-click game "The Manhole," where everything can be interacted with, and you're rewarded for just messing around.

Getting started

It's all written in pure JavaScript with no dependencies other than your having a web browser. Just clone the repository and open index.html locally.

The raw images are too big for GitHub and GitHub Pages, so they are not hosted in this repository.

To do a version bump of textadv-js:

git subtree pull --prefix=textadv-js --squash textadv-js master

where textadv-js is the name of the remote for the textadv-js repository (git remote add textadv-js https://github.com/kmill/textadv-js.git).

How to contribute

Create an issue with an idea of something teptour should cover or a funny mechanic it could have (did you know you can take the banned words list from 43 with you? that you can add words to it?) or submit a PR, and something will make it into the virtual tEp.

Implementation notes

• The frontend UI is a slapdash job to get something visually working.
• Everything is in a giant file because it made developing it easier without having to switch between files all the time.
• It'd be nice to have NPCs of some kind to make the place feel less lonely. Irving Q. Tep can only do so much.
• The engine is semi-capable of (eventually) supporting a MUD-like interaction, but that would complicate things quite a lot.

The Python version

The file old-teptour.py contains the game file for the 2011 version of teptour for reference. The file old-teptour-remaining.py contains things from the old 2011 Python version of teptour that have not been ported (or have been partially ported but perhaps a feature is still missing). These do not necessarily need to ever make it into the JavaScript version.