From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-07-13T22:44:09+09:00
Subject: Re: I need serious help!

On Jul 12, 2007, at 9:54 PM, Peter Seebach wrote:

> In message <3086e6b698191ec82127967a5cb62076@ruby-forum.com>, Joe  
> Wiltrout writes:
>> I sorta have no money to use on books and the like. I was hoping I  
>> could
>> avoid buying anything by consulting the greater population of Ruby
>> programmers. Maybe get someone to post a link to a good website that
>> dumbs the tutorials down enough for me to understand. And who knows?
>> Maybe I will get good enough that I will be able to go over to C++  
>> and
>> not be this stupid. But I have heard that text-based games are  
>> easier to
>> make than games with moving graphics, so I might start off with a Sky
>> Pirate text-based game instead. It all depends whats easiest for a
>> beginner.
>
> If you wanna write text adventures, my recommendation would be  
> Inform 6.
> (I don't like 7 as much.)  It's a domain-specific language, but gets a
> lot of advantages from it; on the other hand, it is probably by far  
> the
> quirkiest language I've ever used.

There's a text adventure framework for Python called PAWS.  It's  
certainly something that could be redone in Ruby.  I've considered  
doing it myself.

See the solutions to this old quiz for some great ideas on how this  
could work out:

http://www.rubyquiz.com/quiz49.html

James Edward Gray II