Chronicles of Forgotten Lands is a modern take on classic text-based adventure games, blending storytelling, puzzle-solving, and dynamic gameplay. In the Forgotten Lands you'll face riddles, combats and puzzle challenges, while collecting relics to restore balance to a long-lost world.
Chronicles of Forgotten Lands is a text adventure game inspired by the classic text adventures of the 80s, now enhanced with modern web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It offers a narrative-driven experience where players make choices, solve challenges, and collect relics.
This game is part of my personal learning journey, marking a significant step forward from my earlier terminal-based text adventure game (which you can also find in my repositories). It highlights my growing skills in vanilla JavaScript and web development.
What I love most about this game is its deliberately slow pace. In a world that constantly demands fast interactions and quick rewards, this game is an invitation to slow down, read, reflect, and enjoy the journey—just like the classic text adventures.
A quick note: the game is designed specifically for desktop play only, offering an experience best enjoyed on larger screens. For now, mobile support is not provided.
- Engaging Storyline: Embark on an journey through forgotten lands.
- Dynamic Choices: Use buttons to make choices in the lost world, or type your guesses in the riddle challenge.
- Challenges: Includes a variety of challenges—riddles, combat, drag-and-drop puzzles, and alignment games.
- Relic Collection: Collect unique relics and present them to restore balance to the lands.
- Flexible Content Management: All game content is stored in a .json file, allowing easy updates or additions to the game’s scenes, challenges, and feedback.
- Dynamic Content Loading: The game dynamically fetches content from this .json file.
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Play the game now here.
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Clone the repository and play it on your machine:
git clone git@github.com:diecatiamonteiro/text-adventure-game-browser.git
chronicles-of-forgotten-lands/
├── assets/
│ └── align-game/
│ └── combat-icons/
│ └── puzzle/
│ └── relics/
│ └── scenes/
│ └── screenshots/
├── css/
│ └── style.css
├── data/
│ └── data.json
├── js/
│ ├── challenges.js
│ ├── controls.js
│ ├── inventory.js
│ ├── main.js
│ ├── scenes.js
├── .gitignore/
├── index.html/ - HTML5: Structure of the game.
- CSS3: Styling and transitions for smooth animations.
- JavaScript (ES6): Game logic, challenge handling, and dynamic scene transitions.
- JSON: Data storage for scenes, challenges, and game content.
- GitHub: Hosting and serving the
data.jsonfile, which is dynamically fetched to provide the game content. - AI: Generating game images and enhancing game logic.
Just enough to offer you a glimpse, but not so much that it takes away the excitement of playing because you feel like you’ve seen it all. :)
