I’m calling this the Adventure Series, and our first meetup is next week on Tuesday at 7pm (US Central). Well, my idea here is to turn this back around on itself once more and turn one of the Parsley Adventures back into a computer game like Zork!
If you have ever played old text-based adventure games like Zork, then Parsely adventures are basically that except where one person becomes the parser (the computer), and all the other players enter commands by saying verb noun combinations to move the adventure forward.
#WRITE AN ONLINE TEXT ADVENTURE GAME IN PERL SERIES#
When I was at Gamehole Con last year, Andy Looney (creator of Fluxx) introduced me to a series of games called Parsely Adventures by Jared Sorensen. That way we could put to use skills like using git, creating a CPAN distribution, writing tests, using data storage mechanisms, parsing text, creating user interfaces, making web services, etc. Yet, we have members who are everything from “I have never used Perl.” to “I have used Perl every day for 20 years.” So my proposal was to build something relatively simple so that we could build it in roughly 12 two-hour sessions over the course of a year, but complicated enough to have real decisions we could make about its design.
However, we almost never put those lessons into a practical hands-on form. Last month I offered a bold proposal to my Perl Mongers group ( MadMongers): Let’s create a video game from scratch as a learning exercise!Īt MadMongers we give a talk every month on some area of Perl technology.
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