The "how to's" of creating a text based game.?

Question

I am wanting to create a text based game. I am not sure where to begin. I thought maybe Visual Basic or Web Developer but now I am not so sure about that.

I have the game in my head and on paper. Will someone please point me in the right direction so that I might actually develop it.

Answer 1

Here's a tutorial for creating a text-based game using Lisp:
http://www.lisperati.com/casting.html

Lisp is well suited for this kind of thing since it's a "LISt Processor" and the sentences, locations, and objects in a text-based game are all just lists.

I was able to complete the tutorial using the version of clisp available with the free Cygwin http://www.cygwin.com on Windows.

There are even web hosts https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net that offer Lisp on their servers so if you wanted to run the game through a website...

Good luck.