The latest major update to Gamefic introduces some important structural and architectural changes. Some of them break backwards compatibility, but I felt they were important for long-term maintainability, extensibility, and developer experience. (Note: this post discusses a lot of technical details that explain the reasoning behind the design decisions, but hopefully they don't need much consideration when authoring games.) Read more

Voting in the ParserComp 2024 game jam ended last week. My entry, Project Postmortem, is the first game I've released using Gamefic 3.0. It's a short and simple text adventure that most players should be able to finish in ten or fifteen minutes. My main goal with it was to assure myself that the SDK project template is sufficient for building a playable game. Read more

Version 3.0 of Gamefic is a major rewrite with a new modular architecture. It's easier than ever for authors to organize their code and compose game features from common libraries. The SDK and the standard library have also been updated to take advantage of the new capabilities. Read more

One of my long-term pet projects has been procedurally generated content for mystery games, where the mystery's suspects, clues, and solution are all dynamic. My most recent experiment is a short text game called AKA: Sammy the Blade. The game's objective is to identify a fugitive among the guests at a hotel. The mystery, at its core, is a logic puzzle. Read more

Version 2.0 of the Gamefic SDK is available now on RubyGems. Among the new features: Read more