If you wrote an adventure game in Prolog, you could write a client that would also solve the adventure.
I can imagine it's easier to write that client in Prolog than the adventure.
Prolog Adventure Game
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#12Very nice. I gave a lab assignment like this once! It's a great way to learn Prolog. https://github.com/agiacalone/cecs-342-lab-prolog
Yep. That's how I passed my Prolog course as well :)
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#13Reminds me of Dialog, a domain-specific language for writing adventure games, heavily inspired by Prolog:
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#14is it generated by LLM using prompt at https://github.com/stefanrodrigues2/Prolog-Adventure-game/bl...?
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#15is it generated by LLM using prompt at https://github.com/stefanrodrigues2/Prolog-Adventure-game/bl... ?
Given [1], probably :)))
[1] https://github.com/stefanrodrigues2/Prolog-Adventure-game/bl...
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#18Just for curiosity I just asked chat deepseek to load and solve the game and it solved it in half a second.
It suggested adding some riddle, for example:
path(castle, up, tower) :-
at(blueprint, holding),
(solved_riddle -> true ;
write('Answer the riddle first: What walks on four legs in the morning...?'), nl,
read(Answer),
(Answer = 'human' -> assert(solved_riddle) ;
write('Wrong! Try again.'), nl, fail)).Re: Prolog Adventure Game
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
This one? [0] [0] https://amzi.com/AdventureInProlog/
Going to tell the Preface story tomorrow at work, I guess if your reading this you now know my HN handle ;) Not sure I will do the 'game' but that into was worth clicking the link.
> I guess if your reading this you now know my HN handle
No worries. A great philosopher once wrote:
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what your HN handle is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by an HN handle even more bizarre and inexplicable."
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#20I only learned Prolog as a hobby, so I may be mistaken, but the quality of the code seems really bad? Starting from keeping game state in a bunch of magic globals (assert/retract everywhere), to a lack of input parsing (even though DCGs would be a perfect match), to comments that disagree with the code[1], to the game logic coupled with game mechanics as side effects (the winning condition is checked inside `take`)... I may be too used to Prolog code from books and tutorials, but the number of cuts also seems much larger than expected.
...now that I look at this, it's 3 years old. I wonder how much better today's LLMs would fare?
[1] https://github.com/stefanrodrigues2/Prolog-Adventure-game/bl... - no, the routine does not "wait" on Windows, you'd need to put `get_char(_)` or something before `halt`.