''From a news:comp.lang.tcl posting by mailto:larry@smith-house.org :''

[Larry Smith]: 5-27-2008 I took the liberty of factoring out these two engines
to their own pages, which are now executable without needing editing.  I left
this page as a central listing of available text adventure engines.

webscool wrote:

> Has anyone written a pure Tcl/Tk engine for text based adventure games?

[Larry Smith] Toyed with one.  It provides for a number of text-based
adventure game "chores" including defining rooms and
characters, building a vocabulary, clothes, etc.  Here
is the basic engine, followed by a moronic little space-
adventure that shows how it works.  It's GPL, and it will
be easier to read with a wide window.

The parser is dead simple - a verb, and an object, just
like the original Colossal Cave adventure. I've fixed a
few bugs - the engine no longer crashes if it doesn't
recognize your verb.  There was a problem with re-defining
"exit" - now if you die in the airlock the interpreter
exits, rather than recursing into a vain attempt to leave
an airlock.  The "exit" verb is now gone, you can "enter"
things, but you must provide exits inside them to get back
out.

The vocabulary is limited but you can accomplish a surprising
amount of stuff using it, with a little imagination.  The
highly generic "use" verb helps avoid a lot of vocabulary
clutter and "guess the verb" games.

   * [Text Adventures: Colossal Cave-Style]

[Scott Beasley] 2008-05-26: This was a weekend project from about 8 years ago.  It's an ALMOST working Scott Adams Text adventure [http://www.msadams.com/downloads.htm] game interpreter.  I hope someone will find some good in it.  Enjoy. 

   * [Text Adventures: Scott Adams-Style]
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