Had a go at this, here. Haven't seen football done as a text adventure before - and I added World Cup into the title to make it stand out, as not everyone will know what Mundial means. Some of my fellow countrymen even need it spelling out about the right way round to sit on a toilet. They keep turning right a bit too much....
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Quite fun, but one change I'd make is to lock the 'game over' screen for a bit, before you can start a new game. The reason is that when I was killed, I'd still be pressing buttons as I tried to battle a monster, so it felt like a new game would start out of the blue, and I didn't know what happened.
For my video, I duplicated those few frames for a couple of seconds in length, so it can actually be read.
Had a go of this, here. I might've been purposely trying to cause a malfunction.
Fun fact: I was on a school trip to Russia from April 6th to 13th 1986, coming home just two weeks before it all happened. Half a week in Leningrad (as it was at the time), then an overnight train to Moscow. Amazing holiday, beautiful country, and I'd love to go back one day, although not for a while, I guess.
I thought this game was absolutely brilliant! Took me right back to the days of Sabre Wulf, which I didn't complete at the time, but as someone else said, with very generous replenishment, as I was never far from food/water to top me up.
The random item generators did get on my nerves a bit (in a good way?) when I wanted an extra life or a 'direction arrow' but got a hindering thing instead which sent me in opposite directions or just made me go slowly, but while I did save snapshots along the way, I never had to use them, and despite starting playing this very late, I inadvertently completed it, as I didn't want to stop.
I see the dev has a brief devlog on his site, but if anyone makes an AI game again, I'd love to see the process detailed in a video. I can't program a computer to save my life, despite trying to do it at Uni, but then I never understood C++ which came up a lot at the time.
AI can be used as a brilliant tool, as it has been here with this game, so to any naysayers, don't lump this in with 'AI slop'. I've only left out the AI mention in my video's description, because Youtube employs bots to get the wrong end of stick and nuke anything 'AI' these days.