A single-room interactive fiction for the Apple II, written for the one-room-applesoft-basic practice on Apple II Software Enthusiasts group on facebook.
You are a kid, 9 year old. You just came back from school, mom's cooking dinner downstairs and it's time to play some Apple II games.
Your life is just perfect!
.. or is it?
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The game was written in two evenings. One for writing the texts, and the other for writing the code.
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Interactive fiction (text adventure games) are often written with string tokenizers, vocabulary and thesaurus. I took a different approach -- I played the game on a text editor, writing all the commands I could think of to do a specific task or name a specific item. In the source code you'll just see a list of the commands I came up with. I aimed for speed of development, rather than an engine that can be used later for another game.
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Source code was written completely using Joshua Bell's Applesoft BASIC in Javascript. What a wonderful tool, Joshua!
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12KB of tokenized BASIC code
This game is free for play and is released under GNU Public License (GPL)