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Subject: Re: Written your own game from scratch?
From: Shadow Wolf <shadow_wolf@softhome.net>
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Quintin Stone <stone@rps.net> wrote in
news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0209201017380.12998-100000@yes.rps.net:

> I'm just curious, so I figured I'd ask.  I've recently started working on
> a game in TADS.  Now back in the heyday of Infocom text adventures, I was
> really into them and wrote 3 or 4 from scratch, since it was so much
> easier to do pure text than graphics.  Of course this meant a homegrown
> primitive (to say the least) parser in Atari BASIC.  So my question: how
> many others took this as their first step to IF authoring?
>

I wrote some games in various BASICs once upon a time (before I had
internet access). My holy grail for writing these was Andrew Nelson's
"Creating Adventure Programs on your Computer", so they were _extremely_
primitive. I was about 14 or 15 when I started writing them.

Almost as soon as I got Internet access, I found TADS, and started writing
in TADS. I haven't finished anything yet, but I'm working on a few things.

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Shadow Wolf
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Stories at http://www.asstr.org/~Shadow_Wolf



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