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https://github.com/he4et/yet-another-experiment
A small "escape the room" style TADS3 game
https://github.com/he4et/yet-another-experiment
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A small "escape the room" style TADS3 game
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/he4et/yet-another-experiment
- Owner: He4eT
- License: mit
- Created: 2020-03-26T13:47:12.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2023-07-02T11:42:09.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-11-19T05:05:12.132Z (2 months ago)
- Topics: game, interactive-fiction, tads3
- Language: Perl
- Homepage:
- Size: 104 KB
- Stars: 5
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Yet another experiment
[](https://he4et.github.io/elseifplayer/#/focus/https%3A%2F%2Fifarchive.org%2Fif-archive%2Fgames%2Ftads%2Fyet_another_experiment.t3/toxin/)
[](https://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=rsssdo3anjpwnt6e)
A small "escape the room" style [TADS3](https://www.tads.org/) game.
Designed as a set of examples for developing [interactive fiction](http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/FAQ).
## How to play
You can
[play this game online](https://he4et.github.io/elseifplayer/#/focus/https%3A%2F%2Fifarchive.org%2Fif-archive%2Fgames%2Ftads%2Fyet_another_experiment.t3/toxin/)
or play it with any TADS3 interpreter.
See this [cheat sheet](http://pr-if.org/doc/play-if-card/play-if-card-300dpi.png) if you are not familiar with interactive fiction.
### Play with an interpreter
1. Download `yet_another_experiment.t3` from the [release page](https://github.com/He4eT/tads3_experiment/releases).
1. Install the interpreter that supports TADS adventure games (see the list below).
#### List of interpreters:
- Web: [elseifplayer](https://he4et.github.io/elseifplayer/#/);
- Desktop: [gargoyle](https://github.com/garglk/garglk/) or [frobtads](https://github.com/realnc/frobtads);
- Android: [fabularium](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.luxlunae.fabularium&hl=en);
- iOS: [frotz](https://apps.apple.com/au/app/frotz/id287653015);
See the [full list](http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Interpreter).
## 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](/docs/table_of_contents.md).
### Pre-build
1. Clone this repo;
1. Install [frobtads](https://github.com/realnc/frobtads);
1. Copy `frobtads/tads3/lib/` to `project_path/lib/`;
1. Copy `frobtads/tads3/include/` to `project_path/lib/include/`;
### Build
```
t3make -f yet_another_experiment
```
### Incremental build
```
watch -n 1 t3make -d -we -nobanner -f yet_another_experiment
```
## Tutorials and documentation
1. [Getting Started in TADS 3](https://www.tads.org/t3doc/doc/gsg/index.html)
Short tutorial by Eric Eve
1. [TADS 3 Tour Guide](https://www.tads.org/t3doc/doc/tourguide/index.html)
Not so short tutorial by Eric Eve
1. [Learning TADS 3](https://www.tads.org/t3doc/doc/learning/Learning%20T3.pdf)
Really huge PDF book by Eric Eve
1. [TADS 3 Library Reference Manual](https://www.tads.org/t3doc/doc/libref/index.html)
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](http://www.tads.org/t3doc/doc/index.htm).