TEXT RPG

WEST OF HOUSE · SCORE 0

You are standing
at a prompt.

Text RPG is a shrine to parser fiction. A robot dungeon master types in complete sentences. There is a compass rose, a blinking cursor, and a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.

LOOK

LOOKEXITS
A phosphor-green CRT display showing a pixelated greater-than prompt and a blinking block cursor, with a faint compass rose in the lower-left corner and scanlines across a deep black screen.
READY · CURSOR WAITING

LOOK

The dungeon master describes the room

It types slowly, on purpose. Every sentence is complete. No fragments, no loot tables, no shop. You are here to read, to go north, to be lost in language.

  1. > LOOK

    West of House

    You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here. A robot in a faded dungeon-master cloak sits on the porch rail and types, in complete sentences, everything you already know.

  2. > LOOK

    Twisty Passages

    You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. The walls remember every GO NORTH that failed. Phosphor dust hangs in the air like unparsed nouns.

  3. > LOOK

    Machine Room

    This is not a Unity store. There are no loot crates, only a humming CRT, a compass rose scratched into the bezel, and a cursor that has been waiting since the last SAVE.

Close view of a CRT bezel with a glowing pixel prompt, block cursor, and a small compass rose in the corner, as if the machine itself is waiting for a verb.
> INVENTORY

INVENTORY

You are carrying:

  • a brass lantern

    It is lit. The robot DM refuses to let the darkness win a parser fight.

  • a crumpled map

    Most of the rooms are labeled HERE. One is labeled ALSO HERE. The legend says ALL ALIKE.

  • a magnetic compass rose

    North is a suggestion. The needle points at the prompt.

Square CRT mark: a phosphor-green pixelated prompt and cursor on black, compass rose bottom-left, scanline grain over the glass.

EXITS

Obvious exits are N, E, S, W

The robot DM will not hurry you. Type GO if you like. Type QUIT if you must. The lamp is still lit.

NESW

  • N

    White House

    boarded, still tempting

  • E

    Twisty Maze

    all alike, still calling

  • S

    Inventory

    lantern, map, rose

  • W

    The Robot Lives

    portfolio path

A shrine to parser fiction, kept in The Robot Lives portfolio. No waitlist. No backend. Just a prompt, a compass, and complete sentences.

The Robot Lives