Games::World now has words implemented. The basic process of creating a world feels rather religious in nature as the following steps must occur in the following order:
You can't create a thing unless you have a place (room) to put it and if you haven't named it properly, everything dies a horrible death. Even synonyms are handled correctly now. My next tasks will be to add paths from room to room and after that to add a player. Now it's the work week, though, so I suspect I won't get much done for the next few days.
After the player, I'll probably take a stab at the natural language interface and create a small area to wander and play with the stuff there. From there, I'll have to start adding "monsters". As I want them to move about and behave roughly intelligently, I am thinking about giving them very, very tiny neural networks. They'll have to be small pre-tuned networks, though, as Perl is not going to be fast enough to teach them.
I also have about 91% test coverage (yup. That includes POD).
The basic process of creating a world feels rather religious in nature
But playing god is what programmers always do, no?
I think this is in fact a basic allure of programming: that rather than creating artifacts in the existing cosmos, the way everyone who creates something physical does, programmers create universes of their own. They’re usually extremely limited universes that consist of few entities with complex interactions, mind you, but universes nonetheless. (The cosmos works the other way around: innumerably many particles interacting in just four very simple ways to create everything we see.)
