I just want to mention another fantastic book which I think is related to the 2 at the top of this post. That book is: Creating Adventure Games On Your Computer
It really introduces one to how to structure the basic text adventure.
I started translating a few of these into javascript with some success.
I researched the author of the book, Tim Hartnell, but unfortunately he went
to the great computer lab in the sky some time ago. He seemed to really
live for computers and had infectious enthusiam.
