[Adventuron] 'It' crashes Adventuron

Authoring Adventuron
1

Perhaps related to the problem that Garry was having with ‘it’ recently and the subsequent update, but…use of ‘it’ now crashes Adventuron for me (scary - it’s never frozen on me before).

e.g. take the box, drop it = crash:

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Adventuron

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start_at = my_location

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Locations

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locations {

my_location : location “You are in a room.” ;

}

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Connections

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connections {

from, direction, to = [

]

}

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Objects

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objects {

box : object “a box” at = “my_location” ;

}

2

This should be fixed in the updated beta (65h).

3

It froze for me too. I reported it yesterday and Chris has done an update to beta 65h. I can confirm that this no longer freezes.

4

Thanks for fixing.

Ordinarily, I never use ‘it’ when playing these things - so that was a surprising thing to stumble across. I’ve recently noticed, though, that ‘it’ seems to be regarded as a crude yardstick of system sophistication (‘the parser doesn’t understand ‘it’!’ they say), so I was inspired to try it. With alarming results.

5

Once you start using ‘it’, you’ll be lost without it. For example:

> X THINGAMABOB
It's a bit like an over-sized thingamajig.
> GET IT
It's fixed in place.
> PUSH IT
It won't budge.
> PULL IT
It won't budge.
> OPEN IT
It's locked.
> UNLOCK IT WITH KEY
You unlock the thingamabob.
> OPEN IT
You open the thingamabob to reveal a thingamajig.

Imagine typing all that without ‘it’.

6

I was about to reply that nobody in their right mind would call objects thingamabob and thingamajig when I remembered that The Eleusinian Miseries refers to certain objects as ‘unmentionables’ which is just as much of a chore to type (I found when testing). Should have just used ‘it’ really…

7

In my current game, I have a ‘jack-in-the-box’. That’s a bit of a pain to type.