I'm trying to make slots and blocks that go together. I'm probably halfway through that kludging. I guess technically I have three things (that darkness door, washroom liquids, shapes) in progress now, but I'm having such a blast! Right now the challenge is to state whether a block is, e.g., scalene iff it's already been examined. This will ( Read more... )

But that game/etude does have a more than satisfactory amount of flavour text and rounded-outted-ness. In another etude, I have a exciting toilet with verbs, and rules for opening it when nothing's on top and for putting down the seat before sitting on it (thanks to the example code in the manual). I need to fix the liquid containers in that room ( Read more... )

So, I'm writing this text adventure test gamelet (which is just a bunch of room and item descriptions) so I can play with Inform 7. I made it so that if you close the door, the room becomes dark. However, in the dark, you can't see the door to open it again! Why should you need to see it to open it?! I've tried mangling the scope. I've tried ( Read more... )

For the interested parties who haven't heard about this:

Inform 7 has been released. New:

• semantic world something-or-other
• crazy natural-language source syntax
• an IDE

Here's the beginning of the source code for my first test game: ( You call that source code? )

It's that time of year again: IFComp games are available for download!

(So far, my favourite game seems to have a bug, but I'm going to try playing it with a different interpreter before I vote it down.)

Save your Zorkmids, for a holiday trip to beautiful Flathead Lake!

Found on Adam Cadre's webpages:
"... the medium of interactive fiction is no more a relic of the 1980s than the novel is a relic of the 17th century. "

http://www.eblong.com/zarf/zarfhome.rss

If you're a gamer, especially if you like "interactive fiction"/"text adventures", you should perhaps be aware of Andrew Plotkin.