Dragon Islands is a role-playing game you can play entirely in Telegram

Chatbots are helping one of the most old-school kinds of gaming to make a comeback.

Dragon Islands is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It’s text-based and uses chatbots, artifical intelligences that communicate with players via messages. It runs on the Telegram messaging app. The gameplay is based on MUDs (multiuser dungeon), the earliest kind of online games popular in the ’80s that were entirely text-based. Already, Dragon Islands is serving players 1 million messages a week in its alpha state.