new to perl and i have a decent little adventure game that is console based which consists of a main.pl and then about 5 perl modules which contain my objects - Room, Character, Weapon, etc (also using Moose).

i'd like to convert it to a html version - where the info displays in html form - a user clicks a new room or action and based off the click maybe a url param is passed and then and new text is displayed. something simple.

i'm much, much more familiar with java and in which case I would just use JSP.

so...i have apache2 and mod_perl. and in doing some research it seems like Template Toolkit might help me achieve this goal as well. at the moment i have a mod_perl.conf 

PerlModule Perl::Lib::Game::Hello
PerlModule CGI

<Location /game>
    SetHandler perl-script
    PerlHandler Game::Hello
</Location>

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which helps me render this simple module. 
package Game::Hello;
use Apache2::Const -compile => qw(OK);
  
  sub handler {
     my $r = shift;
     $r->content_type('text/html');
     $r->print("<html><body>Hello World!</body></html>\n");
     return Apache2::Const::OK;
   }
  
  1;

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if i visit localhost/game - this of of course produces 'Hello World!'. where i am lost is how to fit all the pieces together...i've read about TT and mod_perl and apache2...but I really can't figure out how fit the pieces of the puzzle together. if someone has a simple example that would help tremendously.

In reply to console adventure game to html mod_perl version by cmikel

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