On Jan 30, 2008 10:13 PM, Tiger12506 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're looking for examples - I like the zork games... > > http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/download.html >
I've already looked at the Infocom site and didn't find anything that helped me understand Text Adventure Games like Hartnell's book does. BASIC is easy to read, and with the book's explanations, I'm learning how to program a TAG in Python. My goal is to code the game in POOP when I understand enough game elements to design classes for the various objects in the game, like rooms, treasure, monsters, and so forth. Bob Gailer recently sent a POOP example that does a setup of the environment. His Room class gave me an idea of how it is done. POOP has been somewhat difficult for me to grasp. At first, it was all the new vocabulary. Then connecting the vocabulary to concepts. Most tutorials revolve around the mechanics of POOP, but don't really get into how to think about POOP from a design point of view. I'm pretty sure that once I "get it", I'll wonder why it took me so long... at least that's how it's been in the past when I've tried to learn a new concept. So I study it until I hit a block, then go do something else for awhile. Then I study it some more. Hartnell's book doesn't get into POOP because it was written in c.1983 line-numbered BASIC. However, he has a much better grasp of c.1983 TAGs than I do. I fixed enough typos in two of the games in the book to get them running in a GWBASIC interpreter on an old 286 DOS computer. I can play the game on the 286, read the code, and read the book. Then I try to do something similar in Python. The Infocom games are cool, but they don't give me the feedback like Hartnell's book and code does. BTW, there's also "RenPy" which is an Open Source Interactive Fiction / Visual Novel engine written in Python. That's pretty cool, but they aren't at all like the TAGs in Hartnell's book. There's also a really nice Adventure game tutorial over at Brian Wisti's site: http://coolnamehere.com/geekery/python/ifiction/index.html References: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/ http://www.atariarchives.org/adventure/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hartnell http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/Home_Page Believe me, I've looked at a LOT of stuff trying to get a handle on Adventure Games. 8^D Happy Programming! -- b h a a l u u at g m a i l dot c o m "You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul." [Mahatma Gandhi] _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
