> Oh, by the way: does anyone know of anywhere else on the web that has done this? It seems like a logical web thing, but I can't say I've ever seen it just like this. I've played Java text adventures, but nothing of this exact sort.

http://interactfiction.miningco.com/. Look under
"Games on the Web." I doubt there are any CGI-based,
menu-driven adventure games there (although there
will be -- the guide informs me he's adding AGL
there soon, yay!), but this looks like a pretty good
list of the closest things you'll get to it.