Starting in a room in TADS 3

Authoring TADS
#1

Hi, I recently installed TADS 3 and want to know how to start the player in a certain room.

This my code:

bedroom: Room 'Bedroom'
"A disorganized room that's boiling hot. You should really clean this up. "
south = landing
cannotGoThatWayMsg = '''As you can't walk through walls, you can't go that way. '''
;

landing: Room 'Landing'
"Where all the rooms upstairs connect."
north = bedroom
;

I want the player to start in the bedroom but they start in the landing.

#2

Have you defined a starting position? Glancing through the manual, this seems like the done thing:

me: Actor
    location = bedroom
;
#3

Thanks, that worked perfectly!

#4

There are (at least) three ways to determine where an actor starts, including the player character…
In addition to defining the location property (as advised above) you can also use a template:

igor: Person ‘igor’ ‘Igor’ @igorsRoom

or you can define the actor underneath the Room, using the + notation (all of this is discussed in the many helpful docs and manuals that are available for TADS 3). The + plus notation can be really helpful for locating objects within objects (you will almost certainly want to use this feature in your code) but there are a few subtleties to understand, which you should read up on if you want to do any kind of work with TADS3…

bedroom: Room ‘Bedroom’
"A disorganized room that’s boiling hot. You should really clean this up. "
south = landing
cannotGoThatWayMsg = ‘’‘As you can’t walk through walls, you can’t go that way. ‘’’
;

+ me: Person
;

(note that you may want to change the class of your PC to ‘Person’)