creating a text adventure, but with what programming language?

[EDanaII]

You might look into TADS for the Amiga:
http://aminet.net/package/game/role/TADS3018

More (non Amiga) info may be found here:
http://www.tads.org/

[EDanaII]

Well, if you're gonna "do it right" -- my humble opinion, of course -- then I'd use an object-oriented language. You will be managing objects in the game.

C++ or Amiga E are probably your best bets.

Two cents...

[EDanaII]

But let's not forget that manipulation of strings is only one small aspect of a text adventure. Modeling and interacting with the environment is the major aspect of any adventure game.


@ yakumo9275

Actually, Inform7 is out. I've been playing with it a little bit. It's an interesting approach for an (effectively) dead art form.

[EDanaII]

inform7 sucks ass. Dont know if the gui/front end is ported to amiga classic, but since it outputs inform6... but without the frontend inform7 is useless

and the inform6 compiler is pretty basic ansi c it should build just fine on the miggy if one cant find any ports of the i6 compiler.

I dunno... I'm finding the natural language approach to Inform7 rather intriguing. I don't know that it'll amount to anything, but it's still a rather interesting solution for the subject matter.

[EDanaII]

I took it to mean he thought it stunk. I suppose he can clarify if he wishes.


@ nicholas

So, which part nearly gave you the heart attack? That I found Informix intriguing? Or that it would never amount to anything?

[EDanaII]

I still have re-occurring nightmares of being forced to write code with an Informix back end in the mid 90's!

Heh. I've never worked with Informix -- Oracle, SQLServer and a little MySQL, yes, but not Informix -- so I have no idea how bad it is... but you know, if it had a natural language parser, like Inform7, that'd be pretty impressive.

But my point is pretty pointless...