alt Hacker NewsA period, multiplatform alternative: Usborne's Write Your Own Fantasy Games by Les Howarth and Cheryl Evans from 1984 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxv0SsvibDMTel93SThEYkJkZHc . (Generously provided by Usborne https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books )
Cool! Though your Google Drive link asks for permissions, you can use this instead: https://usborne.com/row/books/computer-and-coding-books
The review of the book isn't so good, though I'd still own it as a charming period artifact: https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2024/01/19/write-your-own-fant...
Dungeon Crawlers for the C64 always make me think of the Sword of Fargoal! https://www.lemon64.com/game/sword-of-fargoal