Weekend Game Language, WeekendInterpreter

Since I've created a programming language, why not write something interesting in it and experience what it's like to write in such a language? I'll take a break from algorithms and interpreter writing techniques and write a program in the language I created.

It's a small text-based game. A knight walks through an aspen forest. He encounters various situations and must decide how to act in each one. The game has no music or graphics. The current language implementation simply doesn't allow for such features. However, nothing prevents them from being added. If WeekendInterpreter is Hello World for interpreter developers, then AspenForest is Hello World for text-based games, plus an attempt at using a new (actually very old) language.

The program is here: https://github.com/weekend-game/aspenforest/ (EN) and here: https://gitflic.ru/project/weekend-game/aspenforest/ (RU).

Download the repository to your computer. First, you need to run the language interpreter. To do this, double-click the WeekendInterpreter.jar file or, if it doesn't start, double-click the WeekendInterpreter.bat file. If the latter doesn't start the application, download and install Java 11 or later and try the methods described above again.

After running the interpreter, open the AspenForest.wgl file and press F5 to run it.

The output panel (the lower half of the application window) will describe the current situation and offer options for further action. Enter the numbers corresponding to your choice.

I must apologize for having to enter answers in a pop-up window that appears in an inconvenient location. But this implementation of the INPUT command was the simplest.

It's funny! Using this language to write even a very simple program, you begin to appreciate what OOP and even structured programming give programmers. I found it interesting to briefly step back in time. It was as if I wasn't writing a program, but participating in a time machine test.