FoxPro Ramblings

I've decided what our project should be. BUT, let me give a little background first (how else could I make this post longer than it needs to be).

One of the things that I used to enjoy as a teenager was to play Role Playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. Eventually I got heavily into the computer games like Zork. Then as the graphics capabilities of computers improved it seemed like the computer games left the old Text Adventures behind.

Back in the BBS days there was also a short fad where someone would start a story by writing a paragraph or two, and then leave it open for others to participate by doing the same thing. I also used to enjoy participating in those as well, but the frustration was that inevitably someone would start killing off the story because they got bored.

Anyway, I've always had this dream of developing a computer based Text Adventure Game that would be infinite in size and scope. I have a number of years dreaming of doing this, but have never taken the time to actually develop it.

Well with the Internet, the concept of my text adventure game might be able to be developed. And if I combine the Text Adventure with the community story project. I might actually see my game come to fruition.

So how does this even remotely apply to Business Applications? It's Simple, in an Adventure Game you will have a series of links that will lead to various content, and that content will link to other content etc.

You also have a series of calculations what will need to be performed with every click/link, and these calculations will determine the the outcome or the output that the user sees.

As well you will have the Security features, Data storage updating and retrieving, and you will have a set of Business Rules that apply as well.