ThinBasic Adventure Builder Project

[catventure]

The ThinBasic Adventure Builder (T.A.B.) project page is here:

http://tab.thinbasic.com/

TAB is a text adventure or interactive fiction maker I am writing with thinBasic.

Remember those old retro classics like Zork, Infocom, Level 9, Magnetic Scrolls etc?

This will work more like the old Quill, PAW or GAC programs than the popular languages such as TADS, HUGO and INFORM...

It consists of:
TAB Editor for constructing, creating and saving an adventure database.
TAB Player for testing and playing games made with the Editor.

Currently at Alpha stage.

Any feedback or comments welcome.

catventure.

[catventure]

Hi,

Posted Alpha Release 8 today.


**Several important bugfixes.
**Some new menu options on TAB Player.
**New little demo game: 'Cloak of Darkness'.


Download from URL:
http://tab.thinbasic.com/


Regards,
catventure.

[catventure]

Hello,

Alpha Release 9 includes the Standalone version of TAB Player.
This will be the runner .exe program for opening and playing adventure files made with the TAB Editor (Basically the TAB program minus the Editor)

The bug causing the 'Too Many Nested Gosubs..." is fixed

http://tab.thinbasic.com/


Best wishes,
catventure

[catventure]

Hello,

Have posted revised Alpha 10 version of TAB to project website.

Fixes error causing crash in latest ThinBasic version.

Cheers,
catventure

[catventure]

Hello,

Have updated TAB to alpha 11 with a couple of fixes

* Character text announcement display anomaly fixed
* %tags% now work in locations, system messages and other text shown (reported by Psch)
* Font colour trick didn't work in WinME/2000. Removed until better way of assigning colours to outputted text found. (Reported by Psch)
* Some speed improvement due to latest faster ThinBasic.

http://tab.thinbasic.com/



Cheers,
catventure

[ErosOlmi]

Hi catventure,

thanks for your post. I really WANT to solve richedit compatibility problem and give you a working solution ASAP. After that I will develop some internal UI module functions working directly with richedit control in order to give you more direct power on it.

Ciao
Eros

[catventure]

TAB small update:

05 Sep 06 (Alpha Release 12)
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* Vocabulary Listboxes now functioning correctly
* %charname1% and %charname2% tags now printing 'character name text' properly
* Character demo database updated to demonstrate communication with Characters
eg: 'ask <character> about <person/thing>' or talk to <character>'
The User flag variables could be used to vary replies in certain situations.
* turnscount 'turns' now starts correctly at 0 instead of -1
*conditions: charpresentn1,charpresentn2,charabsentn1, charabsentn2
charpresentX and charabsentX were causing problems in entries. Fixed.

Regards,
catventure

[Petr Schreiber]

Hi,

Many thanks to Catventure for the improvements - I just asked Joseph about robot :D. Also trying to talk to dog is nicely handled :)

Thanks,
Petr

Edit: Eros, with the 1.0.11.0 it is ok, but it seems the latest version of UI module you've send me cause problems :( - I cannot send the commands in the game using enter.

[ErosOlmi]

Petr,

I've sent you a revised version of UI module. Let me know.

Eros

[Petr Schreiber]

Hi Eros,

the new version ... sadly ... works perfectly ;D
No problem occured during the testing of scripts.

Thanks a lot,
Petr

[ErosOlmi]

Ok,

I need some few testing and than I will update current preview.

Thanks
Eros

[Michael Hartlef]

Hi catventure,

I just want to say, that T.A.B. is a very interesting project. I will look into this further.
What I'm interested in are interactive kids stories. Including pictures, movies, sound. It sounds like TAB could do this, or?

[catventure]

Hi Mike,

TAB adventures work on text input from the player in 'english' like commands and sentences. Bitmap pictures are currently supported and music and sound thru the tbass.dll.

Maybe you need a kind of point'n'click type of graphic adventure game more suitable for kids? There are a lot of interesting game resources and development tools such as Adventure Game Studio &c.
Here is a large list you can check out to see of they fit your needs:
Most are free.
http://ambrosine.com/resource.html

Best wishes,
catventure.

[Michael Hartlef]

Thanks,

yip, a clickable interface would be better for kids. Something like now with commands that are typed in, but as buttons. I will look into the link you have provided.

Keep up the great job on TAB.

Btw. a text to speech function would be a great addition to it.

Michael

[Michael Hartlef]

Hi catventure,

are still working on/with T.A.B?

Cheers
Michael