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Classic Adventure Game Creation Book Online

Posted by simoniker on Friday May 2, 2003 @06:15PM from the creating-colossal-caves dept.

The classic computer site Atariarchives.org has managed to secure permission from the copyright holder to publish the text of Tim Hartnell's 1983-published Creating Adventure Games On Your Computer on their site. The system requirements for the actual programming may be a little harsh for many of you, though - you'll need a computer with Basic and at least 24K of RAM.

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Another introductory guide by NaveNosnave · 2003-05-04 04:50 · Score: 2, Insightful

I could have sworn this is a dupe of a story about Tim Hartnell's book, but a cursory search isn't turning up anything. Maybe it was on ArsTechnica...
Anyway, if someone gets a hankering to write an adventure game in a (somewhat) more contemporary language, there's always Inform, the reverse-engineneered language that compiles down to the same z-code files that Infocom's games came in. The Inform Beginner's Guide, 2nd ed. is a great and free start, and the Inform Designer's Manual will answer any questions that are more advanced.