Forcing the parser to choose a specific noun

[Draconis (Daniel Stelzer)]

@zarf

This is interesting – I don’t recall an IF system trying this. However, I think to make it work consistently you’d have to dig down into the parser and do some serious adjustment. In the above plan, you’re bypassing a lot of “what can the player see” logic which the world model normally relies on. Plus there’s the whole question of handling PUT COIN IN BAG, etc.

A lot of Dialog games sort of do this, but the way it works under the hood is that the default “[something]” action pops up a list of hyperlinks, where TAKE is linked to the command TAKE THINGUMMY and so on. If you actually just type TAKE as a command after typing a noun, it’ll ask what you want to take.