How To Parse User Input (Complete Course in Adventure Game Programming)

A traditional text adventure game gets input in the form of commands entered at the system prompt. In order to make sense of those commands, our game needs to ‘parse’ the input into a list of words that can be categorised as verbs, nouns and so on. In this lesson, we take a first step on the road to a game parser…

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Huw Collingbourne is author of The Little Book Of Adventure Game Programming In C#. Available from:
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And also, The Little Java Book Of Adventure Game Programming. Available from:
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If you are eager to get working on your own adventure game, you can download Huw’s free game-writing code libraries, BIFF (the Bitwise Interactive Fiction Framework) from:
http://www.bitwisebooks.com