Re: Is there a program that will let me create text adventures? Or is there one for MUDS?

  • From: "Littlefield, Tyler" <compgeek13@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:56:25 -0600

alix.
Did you read the letter I took the time to write?
Find a language, and sit down.
I'm noticing that I'm helping you a lot. I'm not answering questions about some 
off-handed how-to-do it wizards anymore.
Not until you've defined a point of focus, and stuck to it.

Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield.
Vertigo head coder
"My programs don't have bugs, just randomly added features."
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: alex 
  To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 4:30 PM
  Subject: Re: Is there a program that will let me create text adventures? Or 
is there one for MUDS?


  Hay i tried Adrift
   but jaws doesnt work with the games. You had to use the jaws curser. So is 
there an older version that makes accessible games?
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: John Greer 
    To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 7:39 AM
    Subject: Re: Is there a program that will let me create text adventures? Or 
is there one for MUDS?


    ok I haven't followed this thread from the beginning but here is my 2 
cents.  As it has been said php is a good language to do it in.  But I want to 
throw a few more on and offline ones out there.
    1. Inform 7
    http://inform-fiction.org/I7/Welcome.html
    Is an off line language but pretty good none the less.
    2. Adrift
    http://www.adrift.org.uk/cgi/new/adrift.cgi?page=info
    Also another off line text adventure creator but requires no coding and you 
can still get earlier versions of the program for free.
    LambdaMOO
    ftp://ftp.research.att.com/dist/eostrom/MOO/html/ProgrammersManual_toc.html
    The following link is the manual to the programming language for it.  It is 
one that is an online based one.
    Also if one does not feel like reinventing the wheel, you can always do a 
little search on google for a game called Legend of the Green Dragon.  What you 
will find is a ton of websites hosting this php game and also you will find 
links to the source code of the game and web hosts willing to host the game.

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: inthaneelf 
      To: programmingblind@freelistsorg 
      Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 2:56 AM
      Subject: Re: Is there a program that will let me create text adventures? 
Or is there one for MUDS?


      oh, it can work ok many times, not all the time, very true, but, well all 
depends on how you cut and paste, and how much you know about the actual 
language your working in, and I did indicate that it wasn't the good way to 
go... 

      inthane 
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        ----- Original Message ----- 
        From: Littlefield, Tyler 
        To: programmingblind@freelistsorg 
        Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 7:45 PM
        Subject: Re: Is there a program that will let me create text 
adventures? Or is there one for MUDS?


        I like these ideas. It's the best wayh to write a program. Don't just 
sit down, and say. ok. I want a text adventure... Once upon a time." then your 
story will die.
        I don't recommend much of 2-3 though, because you'll start copying and 
pasting, all good, and poof. caboom, it died. Why? because you didn't copy and 
paste everything from 10 other files, which requires more from 10 more files. 
etc.
        Thanks,
        Tyler Littlefield.
        Vertigo head coder
        "My programs don't have bugs, just randomly added features."
        msn: compgeek134@xxxxxxxxxxx
        email: compgeek13@xxxxxxxxx
        aim: st8amnd2005
        skype: st8amnd127
          ----- Original Message ----- 
          From: inthaneelf 
          To: programmingblind@freelistsorg 
          Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 8:03 PM
          Subject: Re: Is there a program that will let me create text 
adventures? Or is there one for MUDS?


          I have two suggestions for you Alex, 

          1-1. you can just sit down and start brainstorming on what your 
game(s) will take to operate the way you want, just make a note pad document, 
if your fairly good, as you write things out you will think of other things 
that are needed to make it all work. 

          1-2. then start a flow chart of sorts, a blow by blow list of the 
actual way it's to work, "I enter this room, I get the description of the room 
and what is in it, I type in >>> to do this in the room, then I type in yyy 
to..." so on and so forth, this will both make it clearer what you need the 
game to be able to do, and you will think of things that you didn't get the 
first time around (the first list above).  

          1-3. then you start coding the game, if you don't know how to do a 
"while loop" or can't figure out the method of retrieving an item stored in the 
database for the program, then you come here and ask a specific question about 
that problem.   and someone out here will do there best to help you.  

          or you can: 

          2-1. go find a free source game, like black nova traders.  
          2-2. take it apart, study how they did there version of the assorted 
things and how the modules all interconnect. 
          then 2-3. start rewriting the code you have there to suit your needs 
(the lazy programmers method), or use the knowledge to write up your own 
modules that do it the way you want it to (the better programmer route). 

          when your done with either of these, you will have from half an idea 
to the whole idea of how to write such a game.   and can continue on to write 
others if your still inclined to. 

          laters, 
          inthane
          . For Blind Programming assistance, Information, Useful Programs, and 
Links to Jamal Mazrui's Text tutorial packages and Applications, visit me at:
          http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com
          . to be able to view a simple programming project in several 
programming languages, visit the Fruit basket demo site at:
          http://fruitbasketdemo.alacorncomputer.com

            ----- Original Message ----- 
            From: alex 
            To: programmingblind@freelistsorg 
            Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 4:27 PM
            Subject: Re: Is there a program that will let me create text 
adventures? Or is there one for MUDS?


            Php help?
              ----- Original Message ----- 
              From: Littlefield, Tyler 
              To: programmingblind@freelistsorg 
              Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 7:23 PM
              Subject: Re: Is there a program that will let me create text 
adventures? Or is there one for MUDS?


              uh. a mud would be best. for typing things in. I really don't see 
people typing in forms over and over.
              As for php and mysql, there is some docs on it in the php help 
files.
              Thanks,
              Tyler Littlefield.
              Vertigo head coder
              "My programs don't have bugs, just randomly added features."
              msn: compgeek134@xxxxxxxxxxx
              email: compgeek13@xxxxxxxxx
              aim: st8amnd2005
              skype: st8amnd127
                ----- Original Message ----- 
                From: alex 
                To: programmingblind@freelistsorg 
                Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 5:02 PM
                Subject: Re: Is there a program that will let me create text 
adventures? Or is there one for MUDS?


                Alright maybee i didn't think about what i said. Words i meant 
the old text adventures and i want to create text adventures and little web 
games but am still trying to figure out how i can make php interact with a 
mysql db. So those are the 2 things i want to do text games like those old 
games from the 80s where you type in what to do, and webgames where you 
navigate with links.
                Thanks,
                Alex
                  ----- Original Message ----- 
                  From: Littlefield, Tyler 
                  To: programmingblind@freelistsorg 
                  Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 6:56 PM
                  Subject: Re: Is there a program that will let me create text 
adventures? Or is there one for MUDS?


                  navigate with words. does this mean like... links?
                  This won't be that hard to do. If you know php, like you told 
me...
                  Anyway, use MYSql to store the user's info.
                  Then you can create modules and etc for each town, store, or 
w/e. As long as you build a pluggable module system.

                  Thanks,
                  Tyler Littlefield.
                  Vertigo head coder
                  "My programs don't have bugs, just randomly added features."
                  msn: compgeek134@xxxxxxxxxxx
                  email: compgeek13@xxxxxxxxx
                  aim: st8amnd2005
                  skype: st8amnd127
                    ----- Original Message ----- 
                    From: alex 
                    To: programmingblind@freelistsorg 
                    Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 4:52 PM
                    Subject: Re: Is there a program that will let me create 
text adventures? Or is there one for MUDS?


                    Well an online game where you create a player and go 
through adventures and fight other players. Written in php or a text adventure 
where you read a description of where you are and you navigate with words. 
                      ----- Original Message ----- 
                      From: Littlefield, Tyler 
                      To: programmingblind@freelistsorg 
                      Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 6:39 PM
                      Subject: Re: Is there a program that will let me create 
text adventures? Or is there one for MUDS?


                      alix. I'm not going to visit those. I've handed you docs 
tutorials and now a copy of winmoo with a database. Why don't you just tell us 
what you want. I've got a ton of stuff to do rather than sit around going to 
websites trying to figure out what it is that you want.
                      If you want to be a programmer, something you need to 
learn is how to be more eloquent with your request.
                      You will more than likely get help, but it saves you and 
us some time as well as much irritation and frustration if you can learn to 
tell us exactly what it is that you want to do.
                      Thanks,
                      Tyler Littlefield.
                      Vertigo head coder
                      "My programs don't have bugs, just randomly added 
features."
                      msn: compgeek134@xxxxxxxxxxx
                      email: compgeek13@xxxxxxxxx
                      aim: st8amnd2005
                      skype: st8amnd127
                        ----- Original Message ----- 
                        From: alex 
                        To: programmingblind@freelistsorg 
                        Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 4:36 PM
                        Subject: Re: Is there a program that will let me create 
text adventures? Or is there one for MUDS?


                        To clarify this with stuff, i would like to either make 
something like at farchive.org or at lotgd.net.
                          ----- Original Message ----- 
                          From: inthaneelf 
                          To: programmingblind@freelistsorg 
                          Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 3:54 PM
                          Subject: Re: Is there a program that will let me 
create text adventures? Or is there one for MUDS?


                          are you using either telnet or a mud client? to 
connect

                          inthane
                          . For Blind Programming assistance, Information, 
Useful Programs, and Links to Jamal Mazrui's Text tutorial packages and 
Applications, visit me at:
                          http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com
                          . to be able to view a simple programming project in 
several programming languages, visit the Fruit basket demo site at:
                          http://fruitbasketdemo.alacorncomputer.com

                            ----- Original Message ----- 
                            From: alex 
                            To: programmingblind@freelistsorg 
                            Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 5:03 AM
                            Subject: Re: Is there a program that will let me 
create text adventures? Or is there one for MUDS?


                            But there is alot of ones out there witch one do u 
use. And i can not seem to connect to anyones muds why?
                              ----- Original Message ----- 
                              From: johnny 
                              To: programmingblind@freelistsorg 
                              Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 11:24 PM
                              Subject: Re: Is there a program that will let me 
create text adventures? Or is there one for MUDS?


                              yes if you type in mud builder in google this 
does not ask for code it just elts you pck your rooms adn how they look adn all 
that even lets you pick creatures and how they act and every thing its kind of 
need. 
                                ----- Original Message ----- 
                                From: alex 
                                To: programmingblind@freelistsorg 
                                Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 9:03 PM
                                Subject: Re: Is there a program that will let 
me create text adventures? Or is there one for MUDS?


                                I want an easy one (maybee one that actually 
writes the code for me and all i have to do is use a code editer thing like 
audiogame maker or topspead track creater.
                                ----- Original Message ----- 
                                From: johnny 
                                To: programmingblind@freelistsorg 
                                Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 8:44 PM
                                Subject: Re: Is there a program that will let 
me create text adventures? Or is there one for MUDS?


                                There is one you can look up under google. just 
type in mud creater its a prety neet thing to play around with. It lets you 
build a complete game but not sure the ruels on hwo to get it on line.  
                                ----- Original Message ----- 
                                From: alex 
                                To: programmingblind@freelistsorg 
                                Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 7:38 PM
                                Subject: Is there a program that will let me 
create text adventures? Or is there one for MUDS?


                                Well i was just wondering if there was a 
program that will let me create text adventures? Or is there one for MUDS? 
(rpgs)?


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