On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Terence Fergusson wrote:

Tempest wrote:

	Thats funny, I tried to do the same thing, and ended up the same
way.  I meant to make it Zork-ish, but it ended up 'Choose your Own
Adventure".  Anyway, mine was programmed in PASCAL, the language i'm
most familar with.  I'm not too hot with BASIC, but I"m learning C++
soon so, it shouldn't matter. :)

If you want to write an adventure game in the Infocom style, I would recommend 
a language called Inform.  You can get it from ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive, as 
well as other games for Inform.

Also, there's a good newsgroup on Usenet that discusses matters relating
to desigining and programming Interactive Fiction - rec.arts.int-fiction.
You'll be able to find discussions of both what makes a good Interactive
Fiction game in general and specific tips for programming (usually in
either Inform or TADS, the two major text-adventure design langagues out
there).  Hope it's of use.

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