MiniZork: A Functional Adventure
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I recently rediscovered in on github at https://github.com/dbetz/advsys
(location livingroom
(property
description "This appears to be the livingroom. There is a hallway to
the north and a closet to the west."
short-description "You are in the livingroom."
north hallway
west closet
south front-door-1))
compared with something like MDL -
<DEFINE EAST-HOUSE ()
<COND (<VERB? "LOOK">
<TELL
"You are behind the white house. In one corner of the house there
is a small window which is " ,LONG-TELL1 <COND (<TRNN
<SFIND-OBJ "WINDO"> ,OPENBIT>
"open.")
("slightly ajar.")>>)>>
Code: http://t3x.org/s9fes/advgen.scm.html
Sample adventure: http://t3x.org/s9game/index.html
Code of the sample adventure: http://t3x.org/s9fes/adventure.adv.html
It does not use such a witty approach though. It uses JSON configuration files and I still need to make actions and events mutually arbitrarily nestable in the configuration files, to allow arbitrarily complex plots.
The core is there and people could write their own configuration files to give it an individual spin. All that is needed is sufficient creativity.
To bi imbobo bik fut *wesh fong imbobo belang wit bap deting finyish sera fo welte.
Desh kaxa mali fo mesach xiya.
> vedi ere kaxa
Da kaxa im finyish sera.
> openg kaxa
To openg da kaxa unte vedi wa mesach mali.