Can AI Play Text Adventure Games?

Turns out AI does perfectly well at playing text adventures. I hooked Google Gemini 2.5 into the famous Inform text adventure Curses, it became obsessed with fiddling around with the torch, got a game over twice for trying to take the gloves from the potting room, then got fed up and quit. Entirely too relatable.

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But that was boring, and I really wanted a blog post out of this idea! So instead, I switched to using deepseek V3, set the randomness to 1.2, and gave it the game Mystery Science Theater 3000 Presents Detective. This is a terrible nonsensical game, originally written in AGT, and ported to inform, but with commentary added by the cast of mystery science theatre 3000 about how awful the game is. Could deepseek keep all that straight? Or would it be distracted by the sarcastic comments and confused by the terrible game?

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Jami could be a skype replacement if only accessibility was cross-platform

Jami is a fully peer to peer chat application that supports text and video, but is only accessible on mobile.

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In response to this blog post, and without any outreach or advocacy on my part, I received the following email from the developers of Jami:

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My Accessible Cordcutting Solution

I haven't paid for a cable subscription for years. This is what works for me as a blind TV watcher.

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Unfortunately, if you're a blind consumer who wants to enjoy TV content, far too many of the online cordcutting solutions don't take accessibility into account. While online-first services like Netflix and Disney are pretty good about offering audio description these days, livestreaming, IPTV, cloud PVR, and video on demand services for TV based broadcasts are a different story. Even if audio description was there in the original broadcast, it's often missing in the online stream, and unavailable in the video on demand archive. That's assuming the online website is even screenreader accessible in the first place.

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