Yet another experiment

A small "escape the room" style TADS3 game.
Designed as a set of examples for developing interactive fiction.

How to play

Download yet_another_experiment.t3 from the release page
Install the interpreter that supports TADS adventure games (see the list below)

List of interpreters

Desktop: gargoyle or frobtads
Android: fabularium
iOS: frotz

See the full list.

Development

List of things done

This project was created as a playground for learning TADS3.
The resulting game is a set of "bricks" for building other games, and you can see
the full list of "bricks" on this page.

Pre-build

Clone this repo
Install frobtads
Copy frobtads/tads3/lib/ to project_path/lib/
Copy frobtads/tads3/include/ to project_path/lib/include/

Build

t3make -f experiment

Incremental build

watch -n 1 t3make -d -we -nobanner -f experiment

Tutorials and documentation

Getting Started in TADS 3
Short tutorial by Eric Eve
TADS 3 Tour Guide
Not so short tutorial by Eric Eve
Learning TADS 3
Really huge PDF book by Eric Eve
TADS 3 Library Reference Manual
Index of the adv3 library and core T3 system library,
derived directly from the source files

These and other texts can be found on the TADS 3 Bookshelf.

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