From: Joe Wiltrout <wiltroutja@...>
Date: 2007-07-14T00:56:39+09:00
Subject: Re: I need serious help!

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


Could you do me a favor and link the PAWS adventure to this thread? If I 
googled PAWS, I'm likely to get thousands of websites, from adoption 
centers for abandoned fuzzy animals to strip clubs.


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