(not sure if this topic is best in Writer's Den or Software, it's right in between. Apologies for wrong categorization! And apologies for double thread - there might have been similar threads in the past)
May I ask if there're people in community who would like to make a text game but something prevents it?
I'm willing to help, provided game is single-player and mostly text
TLDR
Elaborating on a famous developer's expert opinion "HTML games are sandboxed and safer" (https://bodyinflation.org/node/36417#comment-57448) - the game I'm willing to help with will be played in web-browser
The process
1. You'll write your game as a plain text in your own words
2. We'll go step by step figuring how it should work
3. We'll discuss and do edits until everything is clear and you feel you have enough tools for your text game to work as expected
4. I'll provide a game engine that understands your way of explaining things
How game will run
1. You distribute you game how you like. You can provide a download to people, you can send it via email or messenger to friends, if you have a web-site then you can make a page with your game and people will play by visiting this page
2. Player runs a download
3. Web-browser opens
4. Game runs in web-browser
5. When player would like to finish, he/she closes game tab in web-browser
Reasons for it are
1. Versatility
Virtually every device (except maybe some washing machines) has a web-browser. A web-browser game can be played on iPhone, Android, Xiami, Huawei, Arduino, PC, Linux, Mac, OS\2, Solaris, anything at all really. Just open a web-browser and play, be it a tablet, a wristwatch, or a laptop
2. Security
Web-browser games are indeed sandboxed. They consist of DOM objects that self-check integrity so it's much, much harder for bad guys to mess with them
Concerns versus it are
1. Web-browser is for surfing the web
A single-player game doesn't need web. Single-player game will only use your browser to run, won't read or write anything else, won't send or receive anything. If unsure you may unplug your router from the wall or switch off internet on your device, and then play
2. There are plenty of game making software already
True. Hence my question
3. You may steal my story
I won't. You may substitute text lines with lorem ipsum or something else. Just make them different so that I see which lines are the same and which are not. I'll be looking at how you run your stories
4. What's in this for me
Curiosity! I'm interested to run an experiment. Besides, fun of interaction
Roles
Your part will be to provide your game written in your words, and edit it to its final form, and provide all texts, images, music, videos for your game
My part is to provide a game engine that runs your game, and consulting so that you're absolutely clear how to proceed