Hi Decota.
As I said, I personally don't really play If anymore sinse I just got rather
sick of getting stuck with exactly those sorts of issues. Even when there is
a commands command, it's not always clear, and in fact use/put is one of the
worst problems.
The Eamon games though have a very limited set of commands. All item
interactions are handled by basic use or examine commands, which speeds
things up know end.
For example, while testing one eamon adventure I found a bottle of gunpouder
and a flint and steel. There was a bricked up door I needed to enter so the
solution was pretty obvious.
Simply use bottle, with the flint in my inventory did the job perfectl. no
worries even about using what on what.
This is indeed why I'm very much in favour of a limited parza of verbs in
such puzzles, sinse then the player only has to frame what he/she wants to
do in terms of using something with something else, not finding the right
verb or exactly the command that the if author wants.
in fact the only irritating thing about the Eamon parza is that it doesn't
recognize a lot of text adventure conventions. For example, though you can
shorten commands to one or two letters, and type in only a few letters of
the name of the monster or thing your acting on, ---- eg, a zo instead of
attack zombie, for examine you need to use e x or e x a instead of the more
usual x.
You also need to use the terms to and from when doing multiple object
opperations, for instance remove gold from box.(though you can abbreviate
from to fr).
Once I got used to working this way though it wasn't a problem at all!
Beware te grue!
Dark.
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