Blorple 0.4 released
What it says in the subject: Blorple is up to version 0.4.
Blorple is an application for browsing interactive fiction collections. The is the first version that really does everything that was originally envisioned. However, in the meantime, a bunch of new requirements have shown up as development and beta-testing proceeded. So that's why this isn't version 1.0.
In the meantime, though, this is now good enough to do a lot of great stuff. You can actually maintain titles and authors, you can import mass compilations en masse, and it supports every Babel-compliant system with public devtools. Only Level 9 and Magnetic Scrolls games are missing, and both of them are poorly-documented enough that support for them is likely to break everything else.
Of the modern formats, only TADS and Inform have intrinsic support for iFiction. Blorple is currently working around this by allowing standalone iFiction files to describe nearby files, or via the mass-import mechanism. I've whipped up some sample indices for the early entries in the IF Competition; they're in a subdirectory on the Blorple site for now.
Many thanks to the people who were willing to use 0.2 and 0.3 to send me bug reports and suggestions!
Blorple is an application for browsing interactive fiction collections. The is the first version that really does everything that was originally envisioned. However, in the meantime, a bunch of new requirements have shown up as development and beta-testing proceeded. So that's why this isn't version 1.0.
In the meantime, though, this is now good enough to do a lot of great stuff. You can actually maintain titles and authors, you can import mass compilations en masse, and it supports every Babel-compliant system with public devtools. Only Level 9 and Magnetic Scrolls games are missing, and both of them are poorly-documented enough that support for them is likely to break everything else.
Of the modern formats, only TADS and Inform have intrinsic support for iFiction. Blorple is currently working around this by allowing standalone iFiction files to describe nearby files, or via the mass-import mechanism. I've whipped up some sample indices for the early entries in the IF Competition; they're in a subdirectory on the Blorple site for now.
Many thanks to the people who were willing to use 0.2 and 0.3 to send me bug reports and suggestions!