One of the oldest genres in video games is adventure. Need proof? The earliest ones didn't even feature graphics or visuals of any kind and were entirely text-based. From the early days of Zork and ...

Hobbyist game developers and tinkerers who love the original Game Boy have a cool new book to pore over. Game Boy Coding Adventure is the latest release from No Starch Press, a publisher specializing ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. There are many ways to create wonderful stories, and using software (besides words) is one of them. Interactive ...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Computer Science Education Week! All year round, but especially December 4–10, 2023, we aim to inspire students to engage in computer science with ...

Installer for Open Voice OS (OVOS) and HiveMind on Linux and macOS. Supports interactive installs, scenario-based automation, and optional container deployment. If you prefer to inspect before running ...

Artificial intelligence is giving people the power to create at scale and businesses the capability to work smarter and more efficiently. One promising area already making an impact is natural ...

Over the weekend, experimenters discovered that OpenAI’s new chatbot, ChatGPT, can hallucinate simulations of Linux shells and role-play dialing into a bulletin board system (BBS). The chatbot, based ...

Today, fresh out of the Microsoft Research Montreal lab, comes an open-source project called TextWorld. TextWorld is an extensible Python framework for generating text-based games. Reinforcement ...