> ''From a news:comp.lang.tcl posting by mailto:larry@smith-house.org :''
 > 
 > 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. You can "enter" things and "leave" things.

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]
   * [Text Adventures: Scott Adams-Style]
   * Text Adventures: [Fiction!]

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