If not then can someone recommend a scripting language ( or general purpose language with scripting ) that I could learn to be able to do this . ( It would be good if the language was not OS specific but doesn't have to be.
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If you aren't using something like GameMaker, which already provides these capabilities, and just using a general purpose language like C, then you will need to do a system call to do those things, or call a library which provides those capabilities, etc.
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Now, maybe only 2, 000 people have written or will write an Adventure game or Interactive fiction using an authoring tool ( before languages tailored specifically to write Interactive fiction were developed one had to use a fairly complicated general purpose language like C, Fortran or Basic, as well as implement command processing, designing game mechanics, and so on . ) So, in that sort of case, an article about any particular tool or system might only be of interest to a few hundred people out of the couple thousand having an interest, but in that case it is of crucial interest.
