Inform 7

[zhai]

I am at Context. Drive took three hours longer than expected due to traffic. More on Context itself later, maybe. Very fried from the drive and I seem to have skipped dinner.

But I'm posting now because this is the coolest thing I've seen in a good long while. Seriously, holy shit, I lack the words for how awesome this is.

Comments

[eggsniper]

What's an Ohio?

[zhai]

Context 20. I am on panels. I should have posted about it specifically, but I never did.

[devilwrites]

Glad you made it in one piece! Tell Tim Esaias and Mike Arnzen I said hi! :)

[devilwrites]

Oh, and Tobias Buckell too. :)

[stoda]

Oooh, that is a neat tool. I'll have to take a deeper look at it.

[justinhowe]

The awesomeness of this is not self-evident. Please explain why this has you all a-twitter.

[boonofdoom]

it purports to be a parser for natural language. This is a kind of a holy grail for linguists and computational theorists. In that people keep claiming to have managed it but never really do. The actual achievement of such a thing would for me be indicative of the apocalypse. Since it will then be time for robots to write hamlet.

[zhai]

It would be, but I'm actually not even as concerned about the natural language processing as the ease with which this thing allows you to create a text based game. There have been many other similar programs, but none as sleek and easy to use as this -- which I'm hoping will lead a lot of people in 'mainstream' genre fiction to attempt an interactive narrative, rather than seeing the IF communities dominated by people who come at it more from the gaming or programming side and less from the writing.