A while ago I came up with the (possibly ill-advised?) idea of creating my own text adventure game.
Why?
Well back in the day, when I owned a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, I loved playing text adventures and even wrote a few as well. They were simple and not particularly good, but it was the creativity of the story and the locations that I enjoyed mostly. The programming, such as it was, was a neccessary evil and my lack of interest at the time explained why the games were so bad.
So who’s going to program it?
Hopefully mrBen will be instrumental in helping with the engine. But that’s quite a way off yet.
How far have you got?
I’ve about 90+ locations at the moment with around half of them fleshed out. The characters, objects and dialogue are coming at a slower pace and the story line is still being worked on, as is the quest list.
Why are you talking to yourself like this?
Isn’t this how it’s done? 
When will it be ready?
Ah, ha, ha, hah. Nice one.
BigAl