How to program a text adventure in C

How to program a text adventure in C by Ruud Helderman Licensed under MIT License 1. Introduction This is not a C tutorial; there are plenty of those on the web. The reader is assumed to have some basic knowledge of programming in general, and preferrably the C programming language in particular. Maybe you just finished reading a tutorial somewhere, and you would like to learn some more about programming by studying other people’s source code. Or could it be that you really are genuinely interested in the ancient art of writing text adventure games from scratch? Maybe you are just having a sense of nostalgia about the old days, when life was simple, and so was software. In either case, you have come to the right place. In the 1980s, text adventures were a respectable genre of computer games. But times have changed: in the 21st century, they pale in comparison with modern MMORPGs with 3D engines. Where books survived the rise of film, text-based games quickl ... Read full article.