Text adventure is a interactive fiction minimal engine in C, still in development.
All sentences are imperative in the form:
<action> [<mode>] [<quality>] [<quantity>] [<dir.obj>] [<ind.obj>]
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VERB ADVERB ADJECTIVE NUMBER COMMON NOUN PRONOUN or
| PROPER NOUN
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Mandatory
Examples:
* INVENTORY (verb -> special)
* GET KEY (verb + noun)
* GIVE KEY TO HIM (verb + noun + "to" + iobj)
* ASK HER ABOUT MAGIC (verb + pronoun + "about" + dobj)
* LOOK IN RED CLOSET (verb + "in" + adj + dobj)
* TAKE SWORD AND KILL MONSTER FEROCEOSLY
(verb + dobj) + "AND" + (verb + dobj + adv)
* ASK HIM SOFTLY ABOUT THE THREE RED BIRDS
(verb + iobj + adv + "about" + "the" + num + adj + noun)
The <action> (verb) is always required. It can be a tipical action,
but also an special command (such as "inventory"), an answer ("yes",
"no", "maybe"), a direction ("north", "east"), &c.
When a special action is invoked, everything else is ignored:
* LOAD QUICKLY (load + <ignored>)
* SAVE GENTLY (save + <ignored>)
* INVENTORY NOW (inventory + <ignored>)
Prepositions, articles and conjunctions are ignored, except 'and' to
couple several actions into one, eg, "LOOK ROOM AND TAKE KEY".
This software is available under MIT license. For more information you may read https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
Copyright (c) 2019-2020, J. A. Corbal