Dear friends,

I am thinking about the mix of two types of game Text adventure (such as Colossal Cave) and Image adventure (such as Myst). I have dreamed to make my own game of this type for a long time.

Is there a community for hobbyists making this type of game? What are the classics? Are there free software to build them? I'm just hoping for information...

Thank you so much everybody.

I think what you are looking for is either the interactive fiction or graphic adventure game genres (usually referring to 'point and click', the graphic adventure game genre can refer to other types of games as well), so you can look up communities centered around those.

Just because I finished playing it a week or so ago (and because it's very well done), I'm going to recommend playing Machinarium. I recently replayed The Lost City of Malathedra also, which was made by a GameDev.net user.

Thanks guys but what about a community for the mix of the two games?

Thanks guys but what about a community for the mix of the two games?

Pick what type of genre you want (e.g. interactive fiction), and just google it. You can find dozens of examples, and the most active/popular will tend to float to the top.

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Thanks guys but what about a community for the mix of the two games?

Pick what type of genre you want (e.g. interactive fiction), and just google it. You can find dozens of examples, and the most active/popular will tend to float to the top.
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Thanks you but I'm really having trouble... with it.. Can anyone just point it out for me? My genre doesn't have a name I think.

Thanks you but I'm really having trouble... with it.. Can anyone just point it out for me? My genre doesn't have a name I think.

If your genre doesn't have a name, how do you expect us to find a community around that nameless genre for your?
Either your game is the first of it's kind, and no community around it exists yet, or the genre has a name and you just haven't figured it out yet.

You've given us very few details. A "[color="#1C2837"]mix of two types of game [color="#1C2837"]Text adventure[color="#1C2837"] (such as Colossal Cave) and [color="#1C2837"]Image adventure[color="#1C2837"] (such as Myst)" gives us hardly any information. I've given you two possible genres:[color="#1C2837"] interactive fiction and graphic adventure game. Each have multiple communities wrapped around them. Both can be called "text adventure mixed with image adventure". Did you research those two genres yet and see how they relate, or differ, from what you have in mind? Have you checked out, not just one or two, but four or five of the classics (since there are variations even within each genre) from each of those genres and checked if they match your ideas?
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[color="#1c2837"]If neither of those two meet your description (Note: the wide description of your game's [color="#1C2837"]genre, not the narrow description of your specific game), you ought to at least tell us how your genre differs from those genres to help us help you narrow the field further.