Will I be able to make an Infocom style game with HTML5?

[Onceler]

I am a big fan of those games and I think it would be really good to have some on my website.

 

[Markbnj]

Mmmm, I'm tempted to say yes. You can already do a pretty decent job of animating DOM properties with jquery, and with the new canvas element you'll have the basic drawing and blitting methods you require. I guess it remains to be seen how well the platform holds up as the number of animated elements increases, along with demands for tighter timing and coordination of graphics and sound, but I think simple games will certainly be doable.

 

[PhatoseAlpha]

Weren't Infocom games text-based parser games?

 

[Markbnj]

Weren't Infocom games text-based parser games?

Actually, yeah, they were for the most part as I recall. I assumed OP meant a simple graphical game.

 

[Onceler]

yes they were text only
I was wondering if the new HTML would allow such things as inventory, direction of rooms, and keeping score

 

[PhatoseAlpha]

HTML doesn't do any of those things. Javascript does, and it's been able to do that for ages.