From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-07-14T01:10:22+09:00
Subject: Re: I need serious help!

On Jul 13, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Joe Wiltrout wrote:

> 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.

We need to get you past this Google fear my friend.  Google python  
PAWS and it's the top hit.

James Edward Gray II