I looking for information on creating text based games. Not the simple multiply choice, but a less advance form of games such as gemstone. It mainly a learning exercise.

Check out the source code for the text adventure Zork. There''s a lot of code to sort through but it might give you ideas.
Another step is to just play the games and then record what actually went on when you used different keys etc.

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