Thinbasic Adventure Builder

Hello,

TAB is a text adventure/interactive fiction maker for Windows in Alpha Development and made with thinBASIC.
Homepage: http://tab.thinbasic.com/

TAB consists of two programs:
The Editor: Create, build and test your text adventure.
The Player: Standalone distributable to play your finished adventures.

The Editor allows you to enter the various types of data the adventure requires such as Locations, Objects, Characters, Messages, Game Settings and Vocabulary and so on…
More importantly it is in here that you can also construct the responses to player commands and build the many puzzles, problems and quests that the player will encounter as he/she journeys through the game world.

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Hello.

Included with the thinBasic Adventure Builder download is a database called “char_commands_demo.tab” which demonstrates giving commands and orders to Characters (made in the Character Editor)

Below is the syntax and types of commands acceptable for communicating with them

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What Is A Text Adventure?

Perhaps today, thousands of people across the length and breadth of the country will enter alternate worlds. Here they may do battle with vicious, alien entities, converse with elves and gnomes, hunt for buried treasure, solve a murder, rescue a princess or save the world from total annihilation…

How is it possible for them to do this? Quite simply through the medium of computer adventures or interactive fiction stories…
In the privacy of their own homes, at some appointed hour, they will be in front of their PC monitor, switch on and start up or restore their current favourite adventure game.

But just exactly what is a text adventure?

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