Definitely not looking to reinvent the wheel. Will check these out, thanks! Shel
On Nov 20, 9:50 pm, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/20/2010 3:40 PM, Shel wrote: > > > So right now I have a mySQL db structure and some Python code. My end > > goal is to create a browser-based interactive fiction/game thing. My > > code is currently just using dummy data rather than pulling in data > > from the db, but I think/hope it won't be too big of a deal to > > interact with the db through Python (famous last words...). > > Suggestion: unless you're intent on reinventing the wheel, why not just > set up your web interface as a thin front-end for an existing IF engine? > An excellent starting point for this would be digging up the source > for InfocomBot [1], an AIM bot that acts as a simple wrapper around > Frotz [2]. My recollection of seeing the source once is that it was > only around 50 or so lines of code. Doing it this way, > > 1) You don't have to write an IF engine from scratch. > > 2) If you wrap Frotz specifically, you can serve any Z-code game ever > written, including (I think) all of the Infocom games. > > 3) You can create your game using powerful existing development tools, > such as Inform [3]. > > Cheers, > Ian > > [1]http://waxy.org/2004/03/infocombot_for/ > [2]http://frotz.sourceforge.net/ > [3]http://inform7.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
