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I once found (plausibly from another HN commenter) a text based adventure where (almost?) all the words used were replaced with alternative English-sounding nonsense words, but have never rediscovered the link.

I feel this would be of interest to the thread, if anyone knows what I'm talking about or knows how to successfully Google for such a thing.



The Gostak

Finally, here you are. At the delcot of tondam, where doshes deave. But the doshery lutt is crenned with glauds.

Glauds! How rorm it would be to pell back to the bewl and distunk them, distunk the whole delcot, let the drokes uncren them.

But you are the gostak. The gostak distims the doshes. And no glaud will vorl them from you.

It has been on my to-play list for some time but I haven't got around to it yet.

https://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=w5s3sv43s3p98v45


And let us not forget about Lighan Ses Lion, a transcript of a fictitious game in a made-up language that just happens to overlap with English.

https://www.eblong.com/zarf/zplet/lighan.html


Thanks so much, this is it! The play online link was what I'd been linked to.

https://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifarchive.org%2F...




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