The best "Internet Adventure Game" I could suggest (without seeming
to be exceedingly self-centered in attending to my own
likes etc.) is Ultima Online. You could have a server on your
school network running an Ultima Online POL server.
There's tons of server scripts that are written in a language
similar to C/JavaScript, and I bet it would be hell lot of fun
working on your own game scripts to enhance/modify the gameplay
in any way you see fit.
At a high-school I was attending, we ran a CS club where the only
thing we did is solve some Math problems with C/Pascal. In
retrospect, I think having had something like this would have
been rather great.
Also, there's a way for one to write Perl scripts to interact
with the POL server (I think it's possible, though not announced
in any official way ;-) and spit out certain game info on the
web.
Of course, for simplicity's sake, you may just resort to
something like NetHack... but I, for one, would prefer UO over
this alternative.
Besides, reading as you know nothing but a little bit of Perl,
you might as well give your students an opportunity to practice
their 'hacker' skills at scripting the UO POL server.
Here're some links for you:
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