May. 7th, 2024

vivdunstan: Art work for the IF Archive including traditional text adventure tropes like a map, lamp, compass, key, rope, books a skull, and a sigh referring to grues (interactive fiction)
As I finish off my current IFComp game coding I've been musing on the choice of parser in this case.

With my previous IFComp 2018 game Border Reivers, which largely revolved around conversations, a number of players felt it would have been better as a Twine or similar choice-based web piece. Which I was eminently not ready to code in! Plus I have a real soft spot for traditional parser text adventure style games.

My SpringThing 2020 game Napier's Cache was more naturally suited to the parser game world model of rooms and objects. Though the puzzle element was still relatively low, so even that wasn't an ideal fit.

However I am confident that my IFComp 2024 game Bad Beer totally needs the physical modelling of space and location that parser gives. And it contains sufficient puzzles, including one fundamental one that is all about moving around the world. And there is another key element re space that I can't reveal here cos *spoilers*. But yup, I'm very happy with this choice.

I am now hoping to have Bad Beer ready for playtesting in the next couple of weeks. Fingers crossed!
vivdunstan: Some of my Doctor Who etc books (doctor who)
Just started reading the latest Doctor Who Magazine special edition celebrating the Fourth Doctor. And now utterly agog at this two-page costumes infographic the magazine fell open at!

Each entry shows the combination of costume elements he had for that story. All presented in a compact visual form.

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