Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Poems that actually compile and run in Inform7...
>
> http://nbhorvath.blogspot.com/2006/12/inform-7-code-poem-challenge.html

amazing.  Some years ago it was Perl, but this reads much better... :)

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nemesis wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Poems that actually compile and run in Inform7...
>>
>> http://nbhorvath.blogspot.com/2006/12/inform-7-code-poem-challenge.html
> 
> amazing.  Some years ago it was Perl, but this reads much better... :)

It's cool. It's actually using the game's parser to compile the "english" 
into something called Inform6, which is much like TADS, i.e., an 
OO/procedural syntax-heavy (relatively) language for adventure games. Which 
I thought was beyond awesome.  You can actually read all the rules for the 
stuff it understands, like north is opposite of south and lit objects in 
transparent containers shed light into the room.

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Darren New wrote:
> It's cool. 

Hee heee!  Tabstops sizes are specified in points!

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On 09/03/09 20:39, nemesis wrote:
> Darren New<dne### [at] sanrrcom>  wrote:
>> Poems that actually compile and run in Inform7...
>>
>> http://nbhorvath.blogspot.com/2006/12/inform-7-code-poem-challenge.html
>
> amazing.  Some years ago it was Perl, but this reads much better... :)

	Doing it in Perl is still cooler. Inform's meant to be readable. Perl's 
meant to be unreadable.

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would want *two* wives is a bigamystery.

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While we're on the topic of text adventures, I just played last year's 
IFComp winner:

http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=4glrrfh7wrp9zz7b

	Need a z-interpreter that can handle the .blorb file. On Linux I used 
Fizmo.

	The puzzles are just above mediocre. It's a short game, and you can 
type HINT if you get impatient. The cool thing about it is that it 
really does capture the essence of your mood when you're just 
procrastinating.



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Neeum Zawan <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote:
> Perl's meant to be unreadable.

  I don't think that's true. Something like Brainfuck, Whitespace or Befunge
is meant to be unreadable.

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
> > Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> >> Poems that actually compile and run in Inform7...
> >>
> >> http://nbhorvath.blogspot.com/2006/12/inform-7-code-poem-challenge.html
> >
> > amazing.  Some years ago it was Perl, but this reads much better... :)
>
> It's cool. It's actually using the game's parser to compile the "english"
> into something called Inform6, which is much like TADS, i.e., an
> OO/procedural syntax-heavy (relatively) language for adventure games. Which
> I thought was beyond awesome.  You can actually read all the rules for the
> stuff it understands, like north is opposite of south and lit objects in
> transparent containers shed light into the room.

Yes, I know.  I've been following the IF community since some time later after
its rebirth in the late 80's, early 90's.  I tried to teach myself Inform or
Tads but ultimately both the language barrier and a lack of ideas for games
hampered me from doing it.  A shame, since both Inform and Tads are wonderful
DSLs I truly wished to engage myself into.  Well, at least I can play the
games...

BTW, this is a delightful read, even if you plan on ever designing Inform 6
games:

http://www.inform-fiction.org/manual/DM4.pdf

about as iconic a manual as Perl's Camel Book.

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Neeum Zawan <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote:
> While we're on the topic of text adventures, I just played last year's
> IFComp winner:
>
> http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=4glrrfh7wrp9zz7b
>
>  Need a z-interpreter that can handle the .blorb file. On Linux I used
> Fizmo.

There's gargoyle too:

http://code.google.com/p/garglk/

>  The puzzles are just above mediocre. It's a short game, and you can
> type HINT if you get impatient. The cool thing about it is that it
> really does capture the essence of your mood when you're just
> procrastinating.

I have so many great old games I've yet to finish that I've been ignoring most
from recent years... BTW, most game from IFComp are supposed to be short, the
rules of the competition demand that one should be able to beat it in just
about 2 hours.

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nemesis wrote:
> both the language barrier and a lack of ideas for games

Yeah. I was thinking how hard it would be to make a non-english game in 
Inform7. I don't even know if you could rewrite the rules to handle 
different pluralizings, articles, conjugations, etc. Let alone redoing all 
the vocabulary.

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Darren New wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>> both the language barrier and a lack of ideas for games
> 
> Yeah. I was thinking how hard it would be to make a non-english game in 
> Inform7. I don't even know if you could rewrite the rules to handle 
> different pluralizings, articles, conjugations, etc. Let alone redoing 
> all the vocabulary.

There's actually a Spanish Grammar extension for I7.  I thought of 
translating it into Portuguese but then which audience would be left for 
me? :P

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