Game 1 Unit 3 of 7 1 hr learning time

More Words

Two more inputs give the story a place and a food — the mad-libs shape emerges.

43% of Story Builder

Two words make a sentence. Five words make a story.

  10 BORDER 0: PAPER 0: INK 7: CLS
  50 INPUT "What is your name? "; n$
  60 INPUT "Name an adjective: "; a$
  70 INPUT "Name an animal: "; b$
  80 INPUT "Name a place: "; p$
  90 INPUT "Name a food: "; f$
 130 PRINT
 140 PRINT n$; " found a "; a$; " "; b$
 150 PRINT "hiding in "; p$; "."
 160 PRINT "They fed it "; f$; "."

Lines 80 and 90 ask for a place and a food. Lines 150 and 160 weave them into the output: the animal is hiding somewhere, and somebody fed it something.

Run it. Type "Dave", "grumpy", "penguin", "Tesco", "cheese". The screen shows:

The Spectrum screen showing the three-line story about Dave the penguin
Five answers become three lines of story.

What changed

Four new lines: 80, 90, 150, 160. Line 140 changed its text slightly — "met" became "found" because the story now has a setting, not just a meeting. Everything else is the same program you had before.

Five variables now: n$, a$, b$, p$, f$. Each INPUT stores one word. Each PRINT uses them to build a sentence. The program is starting to feel like something.