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I enjoyed this article, thanks! Playing MUDs was one of my favorite pastimes in high school and I often wonder whether text-based games will enjoy a resurgence

I enjoyed this article, thanks! Playing MUDs was one of my favorite pastimes in high school and I often wonder whether text-based games will enjoy a resurgence with the many new technologies being developed. Side question... he mentions how you can't quite achieve this "room" object in Python: >you can’t turn to anonymous functions because Python doesn’t have them. You can’t use dot notation to dereference the fields inside the structure because Python uses [“key”] notation. Why couldn't you subclass an object that has an 'on_enter' method? A nice side benefit would be that you'd be able to use dot notation to refer to its attributes! class Kitchen(Location): name = 'kitchen' description = 'Your kitchen is untidy and cramped.' visits = 0 def on_enter(self): if (self.visits == 0): #first time in this room ... So far the magic of Javascript has been a bit over my head but I want to learn more. Why is this something you'd need anonymous functions to accomplish? (And why not just use Perl or some other language with them as opposed to JS?)

natep 15y ago
When I see your class definition, I think "why define a whole class for just 1 room?" because then you have to separately define and instantiate every class, an everything would effectively be a singleton (even if you didn't follow the pattern). If you can treat code as data, and concisely define an anonymous function, it saves a step. Speaking of code==data and text adventures, I'm currently working my way through the book Land of Lisp[1]. Some chapters just focus on new concepts, but most illustrate concepts through the creation of a game (except for the streams chapter, which has you write a web server). The first game is an extremely basic text adventure. You can only move around and pick up objects, but it did parse 'normal' keyboard input. Now that I'm a few chapters deeper, I'm starting to see how it could be expanded to handle different actions, etc. Another interesting approach to web-based adventure games is "Adventure Games Live". Instead of typing, you select a radio button for the action you want. Some of those games are extremely challenging (I've spent hours playing and haven't finished many of them) [1] landoflisp.com [2] http://www.rinkworks.com/adventure/ http://www.rinkworks.com/adventure/

natep 15y ago

When I see your class definition, I think "why define a whole class for just 1 room?" because then you have to separately define and instantiate every class, an everything would effectively be a singleton (even if you didn't follow the pattern). If you can treat code as data, and concisely define an anonymous function, it saves a step. Speaking of code==data and text adventures, I'm currently working my way through the book Land of Lisp[1]. Some chapters just focus on new concepts, but most illustrate concepts through the creation of a game (except for the streams chapter, which has you write a web server). The first game is an extremely basic text adventure. You can only move around and pick up objects, but it did parse 'normal' keyboard input. Now that I'm a few chapters deeper, I'm starting to see how it could be expanded to handle different actions, etc. Another interesting approach to web-based adventure games is "Adventure Games Live". Instead of typing, you select a radio button for the action you want. Some of those games are extremely challenging (I've spent hours playing and haven't finished many of them) [1] landoflisp.com [2] http://www.rinkworks.com/adventure/ http://www.rinkworks.com/adventure/