I've never used it myself but I heard that Quest is good for making text based games (I've done some research for my game). You might want to at least check it out. textadventures.co.uk/quest
already done actually i have quest but i aint very fond of it,
can't do much with quest when making verbs they dont work the way you want them to.
besides when i said graphical text based game, i mean a game with graphics and textbased, like you can see where your at and type to do stuff like actions.
not plain images though, i forget what these games where called but i think theyre known as text based adventures.
i think trying to use c2 is worth a try for this, wont know if i dont try <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" />.
if you want to know what games these are like, sarien.net even has police quest and other quest textbased adventures. i dont know what device your on but you can try