Just in case anyone here happens to be interested in the great and noble art of adventure game programming...
Part two of my series on writing an adventure game with Ruby has just been published
over on the Bitwise site. Let’s hope that this may inspire one or two people to have a go at creating an adventure game. From personal experience, I can tell you that writing a fully functional game - an entire self-contained interactive world - is far from being a trivial programming challenge. But it is certainly a fun one...!