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A QBasic Text Adventure Still Expanding in 2025

https://the-ventureweaver.itch.io/
4•ATiredGoat•1h ago

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ATiredGoat•1h ago
I wanted to share a project I’ve been building for decades The Labyrinth of Time’s Edge, a massive handcrafted text adventure written in QBasic. Yes, QBasic in 2025. The game currently spans over 3,600 interconnected rooms, with unique NPCs, branching pathways, cursed villages, haunted castles, and secrets hidden across an ever-growing world. Every room is written by hand. Every description is crafted to spark the imagination. It’s built to run on the barest of systems, and it will always remain free to download and play. Why QBasic? Because simplicity has power. Modern engines demand assets, shaders, and endless pipelines. QBasic lets me focus on what text adventures do best imagination, atmosphere, and story. My philosophy is to expand outward rather than upward: instead of inflating systems, the Labyrinth grows through new areas, new lore, and new journeys, ensuring it always feels alive and endless.

WIP: A website for listing / finding free plants in your community

https://leafrens.com
1•fullstacking•6m ago•0 comments

China blocks sale of Nvidia AI chips

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/china-blocks-sale-of-nvidia-ai-chips/
2•virgildotcodes•8m ago•0 comments

The "Rainey Street Ripper": An Independent Analysis of the Evidence

https://digital.library.txst.edu/items/86182f1f-3e7f-4ee5-8f41-ab446c35aeb5
1•apwheele•16m ago•0 comments

Meta Ray-Ban Display: A Breakthrough Category of AI Glasses Quest Blog Store

https://www.meta.com/en-gb/blog/meta-ray-ban-display-ai-glasses-connect-2025/
1•pastorenick•23m ago•1 comments

DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09422-z
1•Anon84•25m ago•0 comments

Java 25, Ready to Perform to the Limit

https://hanno.codes/2025/09/16/heres-java-25/
1•gm678•26m ago•0 comments

The Economic Impacts of AI: A Multidisciplinary, Multibook Review [pdf]

https://kevinbryanecon.com/BryanAIBookReview.pdf
1•mathattack•29m ago•0 comments

The Mystery of England's Oldest Name

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg-JaPCjq4c
1•Apocryphon•32m ago•0 comments

What do you guys think about Gaussian Splats?

1•Arun_Kurian•35m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to be ambitious/hungry again?

2•Poomba•42m ago•3 comments

Intermountain West

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermountain_West
1•thunderbong•44m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The first part of my blog is being validated by Anthropic's new report

https://www.mandar.cloud/blog.html
1•mandarwagh•45m ago•0 comments

ArXiv URL Drop in for Markdown

https://markxiv.org/
1•tonydco•51m ago•1 comments

Chinese Typewriter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNoWMaOyWHY
1•skogstokig•54m ago•1 comments

Towards a Physics Foundation Model

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13805
2•NeoInHacker•55m ago•0 comments

Howl.com (With apologies to Allen Ginsburg) (2000)

https://www.salon.com/2000/03/22/howl/
1•phendrenad2•57m ago•0 comments

To do list CLI that feels like Git

https://www.tm-cli.com/
1•ethantrang•57m ago•1 comments

Aaron Swartz: Providing APIs (2013)

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Programmable_Web/Chapter_5
3•aragonite•1h ago•0 comments

Parents buy bulletproof backpack shields to protect kids from school shooters

https://abc7.com/post/parents-buy-bulletproof-backpack-shields-protect-kids-school-shooters-amid-...
6•lxm•1h ago•5 comments

Show HN: XSched, a scheduling framework for multitasking over diverse XPUs

https://github.com/XpuOS/xsched
1•JialongLiu•1h ago•0 comments

We've officially found 6k exoplanets, NASA says

https://www.space.com/astronomy/exoplanets/weve-officially-found-6-000-exoplanets-nasa-says-were-...
5•cryptoz•1h ago•0 comments

Battling a rare brain-eating disease in an Indian state

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79ven0xxyqo
2•breve•1h ago•0 comments

Numbers Station

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
1•acconrad•1h ago•0 comments

Isaac 0.1 – Perception for the Physical World

https://marketing.perceptron.inc/blog/introducing-isaac-0-1
1•simonpure•1h ago•0 comments

Athletics can't keep kidding itself – it needs a plan to save track and field

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep/09/athletics-save-track-and-field-social-media-noah-ly...
1•PaulHoule•1h ago•0 comments

Making LLMs more accurate by using all of their layers

https://research.google/blog/making-llms-more-accurate-by-using-all-of-their-layers/
1•emschwartz•1h ago•0 comments

UC Berkeley gives personal information for 150 students and staff to government

https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/uc-berkeley-turns-over-personal-information-of-more-than-150...
102•pabs3•1h ago•48 comments

"The Falling Man," 20 Years Later (2021)

https://www.theringer.com/2021/09/08/national-affairs/tom-junod-falling-man-press-box-interview-9-11
1•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

SGS-1: a foundational model for CAD

https://www.spectrallabs.ai/research/SGS-1
1•rickcarlino•1h ago•0 comments

Is In-Context Learning Learning?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10414
2•simonpure•1h ago•0 comments