Game

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• A very simple game
• Starting a new game
• Rewarding the effort
• Ending the game
• IFID generator
• GameInfo.txt & cover art
• Treaty of Babel

• GameID
• GameMainDef

• Achievement
• FinishOption
• FinishType

Tangibles

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• Adding items to the game

• Thing
  • Hidden
• Decoration
  • Distant
  • Unthing
  • Intangible
• Fixture
  • Component
  • SecretFixture
• Food
• Immovable
  • Heavy
• LightSource
• Vaporous
• Vehicle
• Wearable

Locations & travel

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• Defining our first room
• Basic travel
• Doors and windows

• Room
  • DarkRoom
  • FloorlessRoom
  • HighNestedRoom
  • NestedRoom
  • OutdoorRoom
  • ShipboardRoom
• Booth
• Door
  • SecretDoor
  • HiddenDoor
  • AutoClosingDoor
  • ContainerDoor
• Enter/Exit
  • Enterable
  • EntryPortal
  • Exitable
  • ExitPortal
• Floor
• Floorless
• Multiples
  • MultiLoc
  • MultiInstance
  • MultiFaceted
• Passage
  • PathPassage
  • ExitOnlyPassage
• StairwayDown
• StairwayUp
• TravelBarrier
• TravelConnector
  • DistanceConnector
  • DeadEndConnector
  • FakeConnector
  • FakeDestination
  • OneWayRoomConnector
• Direction
  • CompassDirection
  • RelativeDirection
  • ShipboardDirection
  • VerticalDirection

Text, HTML, & multimedia

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• Escaped characters (backslash codes)
• Embedded expressions
• Embedded string templates
  • <<one of>>
  • <<first time>>
• Introduction to HTML TADS
• Regular expressions
• String methods
• aHref()

• String
• StringBuffer

Containers & surfaces

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• Container
  • OpenableContainer
  • KeyedContainer
  • LockableContainer
  • OutOfReach
• Bed
• Chair
• BagOfHolding
• Platform
• RearContainer
  • RearSurface
• Restricted
  • RestrictedContainer
  • RestrictedRearContainer
  • RestrictedRearSurface
  • RestrictedSurface
  • RestrictedUnderside
• ContainerDoor
• Surface
• Underside

Gadgetry

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• Button
• Key
  • Keyring
  • Lockable
  • LockableContainer
  • LockableWithKey
• Lever
  • SpringLever
• Settable
  • Dial
  • LabeledDial
  • NumberedDial
• Switch
  • Flashlight
• Candle
• Matchbook
  • Matchstick
• Dispenser
  • Dispensable

Attachables

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• Attachable
  • NearbyAttachable
  • PermanentAttachment
• PlugAttachable

Actions & verbs

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• Controlling the action

• Action
• SystemAction
• TAction
• TIAction

Actors, NPCs, & conversations

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• A basic burner
• The art of conversation

• Actor
  • Person
• ActorState
• AgendaItem
  • ConvAgendaItem
  • DelayedAgendaItem
• InitiateTopic
• Greetings
  • ActorHelloTopic
  • ActorByeTopic
  • BoredByeTopic
  • ByeTopic
  • HelloTopic
  • LeaveByeTopic
  • TellTopic
• Requests
  • AskAboutForTopic
  • AskForTopic
  • AskTellGiveShowTopic
  • AskTellShowTopic
  • AskTellTopic
  • AskTopic
  • CommandTopic
  • GiveTopic
  • GiveShowTopic
  • ShowTopic
• Q & A
  • YesNoTopic
  • YesTopic
  • NoTopic
• Conversations
  • ConvNode
  • ConvAgendaItem
• Default topic handling
  • DefaultAnyTopic
  • DefaultAskForTopic
  • DefaultAskTellTopic
  • DefaultAskTopic
  • DefaultCommandTopic
  • DefaultGiveShowTopic
  • DefaultGiveTopic
  • DefaultShowTopic
  • DefaultTellTopic

Consultables & knowledge

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• Topic
• Consultable
• ConsultTopic
• DefaultConsultTopic
• Footnote

Events

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• Daemon
  • SenseDaemon
• EventList
  • CyclicEventList
  • ExternalEventList
  • RandomEventList
  • ShuffledEventList
  • StopEventList
  • SyncEventList
• Fuse
  • SenseFuse
• Real-time
  • RealTimeDaemon
  • RealTimeEvent
  • RealTimeFuse
  • RealTimeSenseDaemon
  • RealTimeSenseFuse
  • Schedulable
• OneTimePromptDaemon
• PromptDaemon

Sensory

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• Noise
  • SimpleNoise
• Odor
  • SimpleOdor

Hints, goals & menus

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• Hint
• HintMenu
• Goal
• Tip

• MenuItem
• MenuTopicItem
• MenuLongTopicItem

System

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• General functions
• Misc. functions
• List methods
• I/O & banner API
• English language module

• Object
• List

• InitObject
• PreinitObject
• PreRestartObject
• PreSaveObject

• BannerWindow