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Re: Text Based Games
« Reply #15 on: July 07, 2009, 02:58:42 pm »
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Re: Text Based Games
« Reply #16 on: July 07, 2009, 03:02:21 pm »
I win, see 2:1
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Re: Text Based Games
« Reply #17 on: July 07, 2009, 03:02:43 pm »
I'm pretty lazy, so I like when you only have to press a couple buttons instead of type something out :P

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Re: Text Based Games
« Reply #18 on: July 07, 2009, 03:09:26 pm »
I'm pretty lazy, so I like when you only have to press a couple buttons instead of type something out :P

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You probably should have just created a new topic for the new poll.  Now there's no record of the previous results :(

idk exact results anymore, but
6 votes : liked them
5 votes:didnt really like them

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Re: Text Based Games
« Reply #19 on: July 07, 2009, 03:12:29 pm »
Typing in is always a pain for me I like menus wayyy more.
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Re: Text Based Games
« Reply #20 on: July 07, 2009, 03:38:12 pm »
lol
it's actually a bit harder to make it a 'type-your-command-game' too
and the options are most of the time (on calcs ) limited

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Re: Text Based Games
« Reply #21 on: July 07, 2009, 03:40:59 pm »
I prefer number two. It tends to nbe more user-friendly. For some reasons, command input is what kinda took me away from Ultima V to be fair. I just can't remember the commands x.x

Of course, I made a command input type game before, altough all you typed were digits. I had no choice, though, because the calc on which I made this game (a TI-81) had no Menu(/Getkey commands

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Re: Text Based Games
« Reply #22 on: July 07, 2009, 04:17:49 pm »
I know, on those lder games, I could barely remember them myself too
but thats beceause those commands are pretty large and difficult

the disadvantage with menu's is, you can't place hidden secrets or stuff, beceause it just all appears on yr screen :S

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Re: Text Based Games
« Reply #23 on: July 08, 2009, 03:03:13 pm »
shit
that's a result that I'd like to have seen just the other way

(btw: I think the previous line sucked, but my grammar ain't 100% ^^ ( at least it's better than a Russian with Google translator 0.0))

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Re: Text Based Games
« Reply #24 on: July 08, 2009, 03:04:31 pm »
yeah i agree with the secret part. Secret commands can be fun sometimes. Just make sure to not make text commands too long and complicated to remember, tho

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Re: Text Based Games
« Reply #25 on: July 08, 2009, 03:11:39 pm »
yeah i agree with the secret part. Secret commands can be fun sometimes. Just make sure to not make text commands too long and complicated to remember, tho
uhu
anyways, I'd make it just "action subject"
and that's it

but is there a way to make a text parser in pure basic so if you something it evaluates the words separatly?

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Re: Text Based Games
« Reply #26 on: July 08, 2009, 04:00:07 pm »
but is there a way to make a text parser in pure basic so if you something it evaluates the words separatly?
I think something like
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:"DOTHIS TOTHIS"→Str1
:inString(" ",Str1→A
:sub(Str1,1,A→Str2
:sub(Str1,A+1,len(Str1)-A→Str3
should work.  It puts "DOTHIS" in Str2 and "TOTHIS" in Str3.
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Re: Text Based Games
« Reply #27 on: July 08, 2009, 04:24:16 pm »
it doesn't work?

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Re: Text Based Games
« Reply #28 on: July 08, 2009, 06:41:40 pm »
it doesn't work?
What does it do wrong?
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Re: Text Based Games
« Reply #29 on: July 09, 2009, 01:59:41 pm »
errors on the third arrow?