Next Project will be a Text Adventure

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I have started work on my next mini app built in dart. Again this is going to be small scale with the aim of getting it done fairly rapidly. 

I am going to create a text adventure game. Yep talk about old school. Well it is a clone of one published in a magazine in 1984. Yep really old school. 

Originally written in Basic I am just taking the design and implementing it in dart. I am pretty sure Dart does not support line numbers and goto so a straight conversion of the code is off the cards.

I have previously ported the game to JavaScript and it used to be up on a website that I owned. I think it got lost in a purge of old stuff I seem to regularly have. This little project is not really about writing perfect Dart code or about re-inventing the text adventure (Interactive Fiction as they now call it) but more about me personally output some more lines in Dart. 

I continue to feel a little frustrated with the Dart editor. Browsing around it seems even some of the people on the Dart team have moved over to using IntelliJ. Sorry don't have the source for this, although I think it was a throw away comment on Reddit. This does add more weight to moving away from the editor. It is a real same Vim is not better supported.

WebGL is something I keep meaning to take a look at and I have finally run through a few tutorials. Reading JavaScript and typing in Dart is not really a problem although I don't think I will embark on creating my own web based 3D engine just yet.

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