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Discussions about interactive fiction.
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Best z-machine interpreter for a newbie using MacOS X?
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I'm creating a IF for my girlfriend as a special gift for her birthday. We dated when we were in high school in the 1980s. We are both divorced and started dating in our adult life a little less than a year ago. She likes computers and literature, etc. but has never heard of IF before. Her personality is such that she will get it pretty quickly.... more »
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i7: Random isn't random enough
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I have a group of actors that are assigned random celebrity names when play begins. My list of names is pretty long (thirty or so), But I still occasionally get duplicates. <code> object factory is a room. An arch-clone is a kind of person. An arch-clone is privately-named. There are 12 arch-clones in the object factory.... more »
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new version of the bresc tool
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Hi, there ! I'm announcing version 0.3 of the bresc blorb packager. It is able to work emulating blc or bres, but it can also be used as the new, single tool it is and pack resources with its story file. [link] Various errors fixed: - Extra \r characters ignored in windows res files brought into linux... more »
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Inform 7: Creating a dog who follows you?
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I've been looking through the documentation and can't seem to find exactly what I'm looking for, or to get it to work. The scenario is that you find a lost dog in the park, and it walks around with you until you give it to its owner (or possibly anyone else). The problem I'm having is that I just can't find a way to get the dog to follow... more »
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Glulx styles: tangents and secants
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In this post, I will fling out a bunch of random points from last week's discussion, and comment on them at random. I will not try to tie them together into any kind of coherent whole. Coherent is for later. :) By the way, if you didn't see my message from Sunday ("Glulx styles, from the top, or bottom as it might be") then go back and read it... more »
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how do I do this... is this a db?
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Guys, I have a data structure I'm trying to create. I'm trying to figure out the correct tool to keep myself sane. Imagine a lot of tic-tac-toe like grids that track different things. I need to be able to link these grids together, in two-way paths. So, if I want to say that in Grid01, square a1 links to Grid03 square... more »
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Eating people in Inform 7
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Hey I am trying to make Inform 7 let me eat people. I say: " Candy Land is a room. In Candy Land is a person called the Gingerbread Man. The Gingerbread Man is portable and edible. " So at runtime I go to Candy land and the Gingerbread Man is there, and I type "eat gingerbread man" and it says: " ...(first taking the Gingerbread Man)... more »
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