JamesM
6th May 2006, 01:46 PM
Could have bumped this thread (http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=14158), but it's in the wrong forum.
Inform 7 (http://www.inform-fiction.org/I7/Welcome.html), the text adventure (or 'interactive fiction', if you want to be a bit pretentious about it) creation language has been released. I mention it, not just because IF is still really cool (although it is), but because this new edition is a radical departure, and is based on natural language processing, allowing the creation of game worlds with statements like:
Instead of eating the napkin: say "Why not wait for the actual dinner to arrive?"
and the creation of entirely new relations, like:
The verb to sport (he sports, they sport, he sported, it is sported, he is sporting) implies the wearing relation.
allowing:
Mr Wickham sports a Tory rosette.
Fascinating stuff. It also comes with a really neat IDE. A PDF of a formal discussion of the theory behind the design of the language is here (http://www.inform-fiction.org/I7Downloads/Documents/WhitePaper.pdf).
Inform 7 (http://www.inform-fiction.org/I7/Welcome.html), the text adventure (or 'interactive fiction', if you want to be a bit pretentious about it) creation language has been released. I mention it, not just because IF is still really cool (although it is), but because this new edition is a radical departure, and is based on natural language processing, allowing the creation of game worlds with statements like:
Instead of eating the napkin: say "Why not wait for the actual dinner to arrive?"
and the creation of entirely new relations, like:
The verb to sport (he sports, they sport, he sported, it is sported, he is sporting) implies the wearing relation.
allowing:
Mr Wickham sports a Tory rosette.
Fascinating stuff. It also comes with a really neat IDE. A PDF of a formal discussion of the theory behind the design of the language is here (http://www.inform-fiction.org/I7Downloads/Documents/WhitePaper.pdf).