From: Jim Menard <jim.menard@...>
Date: 2005-10-02T22:35:20+09:00
Subject: [SOLUTION] Lisp Game (#49)

Boy, was this fun. My solution, RADS, is at
<http://www.io.com/~jimm/rubyquiz/quiz49/>.

From the engine file:

# This file defines the game mechanics, and is independent of the specifics of
# the game. For a sample game definition including custom verbs, see game.rb.
#
# Features:
# - inventory or i
# - look or l, also accepts "look at thing"
# - examine or x prints long description
# - "it": take it, examine it, look at it
# - walk or go
# - short direction names (n, s, e, w, u, d)
# - short direction names are also verbs so you can just type "w" to go west
# - altername names for things ("whiskey bottle", "bottle", "whiskey")
# - decorations, which are objects that can't be taken.
#   Try "x wizard" or "look at couch".
# - game-specific verbs are defined in the game file, not here
# - A decoration or thing without a short_desc won't be output as part of
#   the room description
# - Any object with no names array defined in the initialization proc will
#   have one created for it containing the short_desc
# - Containment (things within other things) is implemented and contents
#   of containers like the bucket will be printed, but "put in"/"take out"
#   is not yet implemented.
#
# To do:
# - Fix the fact that you can't examine the door in the garden
# - Implement "put in"/"take out"
# - Write a "put x in y" verb
# - Understand prepositions. In addition to "splash bucket [on] wizard" and
#   "dunk bucket [in] well", I'd like to allow "splash wizard with bucket".

From the game file:

# features:
# - game-specific verbs are defined here, not as part of the rads library
# - dunk, weld, and splash take (but ignore) prepositions. Try
# "splash bucket on wizard" or "splash bucket wizard"

Jim
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http://www.io.com/~jimm