Python Text Adventure Authoring System

[Zachary]

"Jp Calderone" <exarkun at intarweb.us> wrote in message
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> On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 05:44:00PM -0800, Zachary wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > I've recently thought of how ideal Python is for the development of what
> > used to be called text adventures.  In case any of you don't know, these
> > were basically sort of a computer game in which the player guided the
> > story by typing in natural language commands, e.g. get ball.
> >
> > Some popular games of the 1980's include Zork, A Mind Forever Voyaging,
> > among others.
> >
> > I was just wondering if anyone has any module that might help in the
> > implementation of a text parser, something to read player commands. My
> > idea is to have each room, item, creature, etc.  Be represented as a
> > Python instance.
> >
> > For example, the following code might setup a room class:
> >
> > class room:
> >     def __init__(self, rdesc, exit):
> >         self.desc = rdesc
> > #Add Other code here
> >
> > If anyone has any idea how this might be done, I would love to hear from
> > you.
> >
> > P.S:
> >
> > I have already seen another text adventure development system written in
> > Python, called Paws.  I thought this would be a sort of first project.
> >
>
>   There are a few modules in Twisted's CVS repository that are handy in
this
> area (as a few people are aware, Twisted is actually a support framework
for
> multiplayer interactive fiction or text adventure games).  Documentation
is
> sparse, but much of the code is pretty simple (a *few* parts are mind
> bendingly complex, but none of those are related to text parsing ;)
>
>     cvs -d:pserver:anon at cvs.twistedmatrix.com:/cvs co Reality
>     cvs -d:pserver:anon at cvs.twistedmatrix.com:/cvs co NewReality
>     cvs -d:pserver:anon at cvs.twistedmatrix.com:/cvs co Imagination
>
>   There was also a presentation about Reality at last year's PyCon.  The
> paper is available in Twisted CVS (history docs directory), or with
viewcvs
> at:
>
>
http://cvs.twistedmatrix.com/cvs/doc/historic/2003/pycon/twisted-reality/
>
>   Imagination represents the most current thinking on the topic, but
Reality
> and NewReality have more infrastructure for actually dealing with user
input
> (Imagination is like a hyper distillate of our ideas currently, and so
can't
> be bothered to cover such things as handling user input ;).
>
>   And of course, many of the developers frequent #twisted on
irc.freenode.net
> and just *love* it when someone wants to talk about Reality instead of
boring
> things like HTTP and IMAP4 ;)
>
>   Hope this helps,
>
>   Jp
>
Thanks for the advice, but I believe that the project could be considered
shelved for now.  I'll content myself with creating something smaller scale.