Figured I’d follow suit and post some updates! So I’ve got the design hammered out, and have been working on getting the design from paper to an XML file. I’ve also started writing some code for reading in the data and some processing of user input. Most of the code so far is just data structures for handling the various elements of the game (I’m probably over-engineering it, but that’s what I do). Here’s a screen shot of direction handling:

I know it’s not as pretty as everyone else’s, being interactive fiction, but I’m pretty happy with it so far :).