NaNoWriMo Text Adventures

[squirmelia]

NaNoWriMo starts soon, and as I've been reading Twisty Little Passages, I'm vaguely contemplating writing some kind of interactive fiction/text adventure type thing for it.

[Poll #1474777]

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[nickmurdoch.livejournal.com]

I haven't got enough room in the form to reply properly, and it looks like it didn't save my submission anyway, so here's my answers:

* I can't remember any specifically, apart from L (see below), although I've half-written a few in the past :)

* L - A Mathemagical Adventure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_-_A_Mathemagical_Adventure) - I first played this at school in Year 6 on the classroom's BBC Micro with classmates, and that inspired me to learn my first programming language the next year (BASIC). Unfortunately I only ever knew the game as simply 'L' until recently, when I grabbed a copy of it and a BBC Micro emulator and played it all the way through. They've re-released it as a Windows application now, still text based I believe, for this generation of schoolchildren. :)

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I have suddenly remembered that I half-wrote some when I was at school also! I got bored of writing them pretty quickly though. I can't even remember what they were about though or even what language they were in. I remember more sitting there in class, writing bits of code on paper, when I should have been paying attention.

[nickmurdoch.livejournal.com]

Ooh, on paper? Hardcore! I think the main problem with writing a text adventure is that once the framework of moving between rooms and picking up objects is done, actually inputting all the rooms and their objects quickly becomes tedious!

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I must have been very bored in class to write them out on paper!

[invisible-al.livejournal.com]

Oh god I played that through the whole of one summer at the activities that my school was running. Took me and the teaching assistant weeks to finish it :).