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3 Welcome to Hoot!
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6 Hoot stands for Hypertext Once upOn a Time. It's an adventure game creation tool. You write adventures in simple Hootscript and Hoot turns your script into a game that can be played in any ordinary Web browser.
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8 Start Adventuring
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11 Use Hoot: <http://ratfactor.com/misc/hoot/hoot.html>
12 Play a silly example game: <http://ratfactor.com/misc/hoot/examplegame.html>
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14 Hoot contains its own tutorial, so feel free to jump right in and start creating your own games. No programming experience is required.
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16 Feedback is welcomed at <http://ratfactor.com/contact-me>
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19 Version History
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21 * 2014-05-08 - v1.5 - Added escape sequence for literal slash inside strings: \/
22 * 2013-10-19 - v1.4 - Fixed nasty parser bug which could cause things to be nested under other things under certain circumstances (such as following an if...then...end statement)
23 * 2013-03-17 - v1.3 - Fixed critical compression bug, improved error checking (most errors now in plain English)
24 * 2013-03-16 - v1.2 - Vars and things no longer case sensitive
25 * 2013-03-16 - v1.1 - Build output now compressed!
26 * 2013-03-14 - v1.0 - New predictive parser complete, project now called Hoot*
27 * 2012-03-14 - v0.1 - Work begins on a non-toy implementation
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29 **Hoot**
30 Copyright 2013 Dave Gauer
31 Released under the MIT license.
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34 *Yes, it really was a year to the day after work began, but I had no idea until I compiled the above list!