Coding is a Text Adventure

Wired News is running a story about a new approach to crossover working and gaming turning your coding into a MUD-style adventure. Playsh is a "narrative-driven 'object navigation' client, operating primarily on the semantic level, casting your hacking environment as a high-level, shell-based, social prototyping laboratory, a playground for recombinant network toys." Great, now they are combining two of the most horrible addictions in my life.

Comments

Re:How about a simple shell?

[Carthag]

Looks kinda like AppleScript.

*insert examples here*

Random rewards

[Lord_Dweomer]

For visualizing code, I'd say this is something very interesting...however when it comes to making work fun by combining it with a game....

The thing people need to understand is that the reason games are fun is because of the random reward structure in them. You don't get random rewards when you code...only random problems with sometimes unlikely solutions.