Legend of the Plaid Dragon
I am not a software developer, but I like to code.
A couple years ago now, I was feeling handy enough with really basic Javascript to start looking for a coding project to really pull together a bunch of web dev skills and actually make something. I decided that I wanted to try cloning Legend of the Red Dragon, a text adventure game I played when I was a kid that is arguably the most successful BBS door game of all time. (All due props to Trade Wars.) After Ben and I finished the book last year and our family moved back to North Carolina, I picked up this project again and really make it into something.
tl;dr – I have a new Slack game available that you can try right now. Click here to learn more and, if you like, invite it to your workspace! The rest of this blog is all about how, and why, I built it.