Version 1.0 of Gamefic and the SDK Are Now Available
by admin on 9-15-2016 9:26 AMToday I released Version 1 of Gamefic and the Gamefic SDK. This release is significant for several reasons: Read More
Recent News
Testing Interactive Fiction with Automated Gameplay
by Gamefic on 8-1-2016 12:46 PMI've been experimenting with player bots for interactive fiction. Besides being a fun exercise, I thought they might be a useful debugging tool. I even thought they might be able to prove the "validity" of a story model, e.g., that the story can never be played into an unfinishable state. I'm not sure that's possible with a non-trivial story, but I figured I'd give it a shot. Read More
Dynamic Conjugation
by Gamefic on 4-28-2016 6:56 PMThe original version of the standard library was hardcoded to use the second person when referring to the player's character, e.g., "You go north." Not anymore. Scripts can access an object that defines grammar rules for the PC through the you method. Read More
Haul and Pull
by Gamefic on 4-18-2016 7:55 AMThe Gamefic project went through a major overhaul this weekend. Most of these changes have been in development for months. Saturday I started merging them into the master branch on the GitHub repo. Read More
Another Weekend, Another Refactoring
by Gamefic on 6-28-2015 3:55 PMThe Director class that handles actions just went through a major overhaul. Most of the changes are internal, so the impact on plot scripts should be minimal. Among the changes: Read More
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