Text Adventures - When authors pretend to be programmers and visa versa

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Text Adventures - When authors pretend to be programmers and visa versa

corn in the bible: Jun 5, 2004; Oh no oh god it's all true!

John F Bennett posted:

Let's talk parsers!

Personally, I'm a huge fan of some old school typing. Especially the games by Infocom and Legend Entertainment because of their complex parsers. The main advantage for me is the way a cleverly written text adventure gives you a kind of freedom that CYOA games can never give you. It's very fun to try to outsmart it, by feeding it stuff the programmer never accounted for.

This can also be the main disadvantage:

>TAKE LAMP
"I don't know how to take a lamp."

My first one was ZORK. My favourite one is Eric The Unready. Really good and complex parsers that even understood composite sentences such as:

>DROP ALL BUT KEY
>GO NORTH, TURN ON THE FAUCET THEN DRINK FROM IT

parsers own and are the best, parsers 4 lyfe

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corn in the bible: Jun 5, 2004; Oh no oh god it's all true!

Twerkteam Pizza posted:

This but unironically

who said it was ironic

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