Greetings Monks, I'm currently building a adventure game and I'm bit stuck on how to build a room system. How would I generate a series of connected rooms? Here is what my package looks like so far. Each object has four exit attributes which I store references to other rooms.

Thanks for any advice!

package main:

use Room;

# this is how I generate rooms and add exits

my $townsquare = Room->new(name => "Town Square");
my $training = Room->new(name => "store");
$townsquare->addeast($store);
$store->addwest($townsquare);



package Room;

use strict;
use warnings;

sub new {
    my ($class, %arg) = @_;
    my $objref = {
        _name                   => $arg{name}               || "Town S
+quare",
        _collection             => $arg{collection}         || [],
        _enemies                => $arg{enemies}            || "off",
        _exiteast               => $arg{exiteast}           || "none",
        _exitwest               => $arg{exitwest}           || "none",
        _exitsouth              => $arg{exitsouth}          || "none",
        _exitnorth              => $arg{exitnorth}          || "none",

        _engine                 => $arg{engine}             || 0
    };

    bless $objref, $class;
    return $objref;
}

sub enter {

    #add person to collection
    my $self  = shift;
    my $ref   = shift;
    my $aref  = $self->{_collection};
    push @$aref, $ref;
}


sub leave {
    my $self  = shift;
    my $ref   = shift;
    my $aref  = $self->{_collection};

    my $count = 0;

    #remove person from collection
    foreach(@$aref) {
        if ($ref == $_) {
            splice @$aref, $count, 1;
        }
        $count++;
    }
}
sub addeast {
    my $self  = shift;
    my $exit  = shift;
    $self->{_exiteast} = $exit;
}

sub addwest {
    my $self  = shift;
    my $exit  = shift;
    $self->{_exitwest} = $exit;
}

sub addsouth {
    my $self  = shift;
    my $exit  = shift;
    $self->{_exitsouth} = $exit;
}

sub addnorth {
    my $self  = shift;
    my $exit  = shift;
    $self->{_exitnorth } = $exit;
}

sub name { $_[0]->{_name}; }



sub exitwest  { $_[0]->{_exitwest}; }
sub exiteast  { $_[0]->{_exiteast}; }
sub exitsouth { $_[0]->{_exitsouth}; }
sub exitnorth { $_[0]->{_exitnorth}; }

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