Hi there,
I'm developing a new text-based adventure / rpg game (no graphical skills) to help me learn Java, and I was wondering if anyone has some experience with making interfaces for text-based games (or graphical ones with menus etc in them).
I've thought it over, and I definitely need a gui, as just parsing from and printing to System.out doesn't really work that well. I'm still not sure where to proceed from here, but I thought that maybe a great way to do it would be through a browser, which would give a great, easy and flexible interace (esp. for character creation) without a lot of messy gui programming.
Does anyone know of a way to link a Java application with a HTML interface like this (for free)? Basically it would be really nice to have a bunch of forms and textfields for input, and just put the text out as a normal web page. The game could then be played in a more open way, allowing copy and pasting instead of typing. I don't really know how to begin, does anyone have experience with anything like this?
Cheers
I'm developing a new text-based adventure / rpg game (no graphical skills) to help me learn Java, and I was wondering if anyone has some experience with making interfaces for text-based games (or graphical ones with menus etc in them).
I've thought it over, and I definitely need a gui, as just parsing from and printing to System.out doesn't really work that well. I'm still not sure where to proceed from here, but I thought that maybe a great way to do it would be through a browser, which would give a great, easy and flexible interace (esp. for character creation) without a lot of messy gui programming.
Does anyone know of a way to link a Java application with a HTML interface like this (for free)? Basically it would be really nice to have a bunch of forms and textfields for input, and just put the text out as a normal web page. The game could then be played in a more open way, allowing copy and pasting instead of typing. I don't really know how to begin, does anyone have experience with anything like this?
Cheers