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hamrick@milton.u.washington.edu (Mike Hamrick) writes:

>I am looking for an adventure game compiler.  A while back I read parts
>of a discussion concerning a fellow named Josh, and how he couldn't have
>possibly made an adventure game compiler that was as good as mumblemumble.

I don't know about mumblemumble, but I'll take this moment to point out that
TADS -- The Adventure Development System -- is the best darn adventure system
I've ever seen (and I think I've seen all of 'em).  It's shareware, and is
available from wuarchive, in (I think) /msdos/mirrors/games/textadv.  Unlike
most adventure-development systems, whose authors seem permanently stuck in
the 64K age of limitations, TADS is a full-fledged C/Pascal-like object
oriented language, which has a source-code #include file (ADV.T) that defines
everything having to do with adventures, so you can change everything.  You
could even skip ADV.T altogether and go write a database system in the TADS
language (well, almost).  It produces games indistinguishable from Infocom's.

If anyone knows of any new adventure systems, let me know -- I'm always glad
to check them out and see if they are even better.  Maybe someday I'll actually
get around to writing a game.

- David Librik
  librik@cory.Berkeley.edu