Playsh is a tool that turns your collaborative coding environment into something resembling a text adventure game comparable to MUDs and Zork and other such things.

But instead of ducking grues and collecting zorkmids, you're interacting with whatever program code you're working on, as well as the data and hardware devices that it uses. "It treats the web and APIs as just more objects and places, and is a platform for writing and sharing your own code to manipulate those objects and places," says developer Matt Webb, who unveiled the tool at last week's O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

• Wired News: Coding Tool Is a Text Adventure
• SourceForge.net: playsh
• playsh (15 March 2006, Interconnected)

Posted by Shane on March 16, 2006 9:52 AM | Permalink