Hi everyone,

I'm new to textadventures and I'm testing it for a project I am working on. I'm not native English speaker so apologies for any typo's and grammar mistakes ;)

For use in education we are giving students the option to interview Jackie Kennedy after the assasination of John F. Kennedy. I have searched the forums and tutorials and I just can't tackle my problem.

The game: http://play3.textadventures.co.uk/Play.aspx?id=kzg2_p7nqecdlxczwjkevq

It features only 1 room with an object (Jackie), whom de students can ask questions regarding te assasination. These questions are now set as 'commands'. For example:

"From which direction did the shots come?" which uses the regular expression "which direction" as an activator.

This results in an Typewriter message; "I don’t know where the shots came from. I think maybe from behind the car. I don’t know where the shooter was."

Because most students are still learning English, there is a chance that they don't know or use the word 'which'.
I would like to use the terms "direction shots" but that only works if these terms are adjacent to eachother. I tried an * in between but that doesn't seem to work.

Anyone know/see what I am doing wrong (or should be doing here)?

Best regards,

Eelco

You could try...

"what direction?"

I'm not sure if that helps you or not though. :/ You could try a Command in that room that you could customize a little more. For example...

Command
Command Pattern
what direction;which direction;from where were the shots fired;from where did the shots originate;shots originate;shots fired;directions shots originated;shots fired from;or anything else you can think of. 
Name: Shots Fired

Script
msg ("Blah blah!")