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Example: ** Trieste
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Location: Table amendments
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RecipeLocation: Helping and Hinting
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Index: HELP command with specific set of topics
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Description: Table amendment to adjust HELP commands provided for the player.
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For: Z-Machine
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Suppose we are using an extension in which another author has defined some help topics for the player, and we want to amend them for our game.
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We'll start with the portion of the text that we have inherited from the extension:
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{*}"Trieste"
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Section 1 - Procedure
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A help-topic is a kind of value. Some help-topics are defined by the Table of Standard Instructions.
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Table of Standard Instructions
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help-topic reply
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commands "This game recognizes 150 common commands for forms of military attack. These include..."
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saving "To save the game, type SAVE. You will be prompted to supply a file-name for your saved game. If you'd like to return to play at that point again later, RESTORE the saved game."
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Understand "help [help-topic]" as asking for help about. Asking for help about is an action out of world, applying to one help-topic.
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Understand "help" or "help [text]" as a mistake ("Help is available on the following topics: [help-topics list]").
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To say help-topics list:
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repeat through the Table of Standard Instructions:
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say "[line break] [help-topic entry]";
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Carry out asking for help about:
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repeat through the Table of Standard Instructions:
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if the help-topic understood is the help-topic entry:
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say "[reply entry][paragraph break]";
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break.
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Section 2 - Scenario
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Now, let's imagine our game is a special one in which only a very limited supply of moves are allowed. In that case, we'll want to replace the information on commands:
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{**}Table of Standard Instructions (amended)
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help-topic reply
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commands "The only commands this game recognizes are HOLD, MOVE, CONVOY, SUPPORT MOVE, and SUPPORT HOLD. No others are necessary."
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Board Room is a room. Mark is a man in the Board Room. "Russia (played by Mark) is also hovering over the board."
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Guest Bathroom is south of Board Room. Lena and Rob are in the Guest Bathroom. Lena is a woman. Rob is a man.
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Rule for writing a paragraph about Lena when Lena is in the Guest Bathroom and Rob is in the Guest Bathroom:
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say "[Lena] (Italy) and [Rob] (Great Britain) are having a hushed conversation while leaning against your good towels. They stop and stare at you when you come in."
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Test me with "help / help commands / help saving".
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