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I'm really enjoying Counterfeit Monkey. There are some other authors doing creative things with the parser. Junior Arithmancer by Mike Spivey is fun, but not
by jgerrish 3y ago
I'm really enjoying Counterfeit Monkey.
There are some other authors doing creative things with the parser. Junior Arithmancer by Mike Spivey is fun, but not as narratively rich as Emily Short's work.
Andrew Plotkin's Lists and Lists also turns Inform into a parser.
I think a future LLM could accomplish these feats. There's definitely a theme or class of Interactive Fiction: call it "simulation" or "meta" at play there. Some classic works like A Mind Forever Voyaging used it. And old Lucas Arts games like Day of the Tentacle even embedded games within the game. So given those kind of prompts something could be generated in a couple generations.
Not to take away from the current work. They build upon the shoulders of classic Interactive Fiction while being more forgiving and enjoyable.
- anthk 3y agoDOTT just spawned the OG maniac mansion EXE as a simple DOS call. Once you add DOTT to scummvm you will get the both games added to the game list as the MM data it's bundled as if it was a standalone MM install. I mean, on installing DOTT in any system you are actually installing both games of the series. DOTT just made a fancy way to launch the old MM while being ingame. You can launch it outside from DOTT by hand without opening DOTT first.