[code]Helping is an action applying to nothing. Understand “help” as helping.
check helping:
say “Use ‘hint’ for a room hint. [line break]Use ‘manual’ if you are new to this kind of game.”.
A room has some text called the room-hint. The room-hint of a room is usually “”.
hinting is an action applying to nothing. Understand “hint” as hinting.
Check hinting:
If room-hint of the location is “”:
say “Sorry. You’re on your own here.”;
otherwise:
say “[room-hint of the location]”.
manualing is an action applying to nothing. Understand “manual” as manualing.
Check manualing:
say “The game reacts to typed input. For example, type ‘go west’, or, simply, ‘west’, or just ‘w’. The eight basic compass directions north (n), south (s), east (e), west (w), northeast (ne), southeast (se), northwest (nw), southwest (sw), together with ‘up’ (‘u’), ‘down’ (‘d’), ‘in’ and ‘out’ are the simplest ways of moving around in the game. tec. etc…”.
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