Gamebook style link options in text adventures

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Game's introduction:

The cold walls protects the heart.
I wake up again, following duties of someone I never met.

When we took life from another planet,
our journey of knowledge continues.

The queen asks for her gifts.
While the monarch rules the darkest reach of the galaxy.

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Descriptions for locations and vocations are done by a bot

Advantage:

1. If your game have many choices, in gamebook, you have to create a page for each choice, whereas in text adventure, you can lead the player into the same room, reducing game creation workload.
2. Text adventure have map to show both the player and game creator the gameplay's progress either in terms of world map or story progression, this makes it easier for player to replay and avoid the same routes, this also makes it easier for game creator to plan their story paths.
3. Text adventure have verbs for objects, in which you can hide extra story or look at descriptions, so you won't have to force the player to reread everything when he retries the game.
4. Text adventure have inventory, additionally, you can use the inventory to determine whether there are additional adventure choices.

Disadvantage:

1. For a new game creator, gamebook is just easier and intuitive as it is mostly mouse clicking rather than copying code and changing the details.

Technical notes:

1. For mapping, making the exits invisible instead of locking helps reduce spoiler reveal of next player's choices.
2. Select no for "allow player to ignore the menu", otherwise the gameplay is stopped halfway.

Stages:
room - The most straightforward, tells a story without affecting future choices.
room1 - Depending on player choices, he gains certain inventories.
room2 - This is the most useful code as it moves the player to different rooms that have a different future.
room3 - This trades the player's inventory for the better or worst.
room4 - This adds an affix to an inventory alias like "Frozen, Fossil and sand".
room5 - This lets players interact with text adventure objects.
room6 - This shows multiple room scripts can be shoved into 1 room instead, this is usually used in rpg games that wants a more realistic map.
room7 - This demonstrates a foreach example.

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