Combat Extensions in Inform 10?

[Zed (Zed Lopez)]

@Jim_Aikin

Can anyone recommend an extension that is current and does this sort of thing? It seems a popular enough idea, one would imagine there would be something available.

Lots of people are interested in having combat systems in games… but it’s not clear to me that there will ever be enough in common between what two authors want for any attempted generic combat extension to be that useful. Has there been more than one game using Armed? (I commented on this before…)

Writing a basic combat extension for inform 7

I knew there was one I was forgetting: Armed by David Ratliff (written for a previous version of Inform 7; it wouldn’t compile with the modern version without changes). I think this hasn’t happened 'cause what you’re abstracting how and at what level of granularity stands to be so wildly different between any two conceptions (he says someone who has learned a bazillion RPG combat systems). Also, once you know Inform, it’s fairly straightforward to write such a thing – the harder part is design…

There haven’t been a lot of published combat extensions besides Armed.

Inform Attack which lives on as Kerkerkruip Attack, but I don’t know how plausible it would be to use it outside of Kerkerkruip.

Qualitative Combat, posted here a couple years ago, has a very different approach.

I’m pretty sure it’d be trivial to update Armed, possibly just changing [scream out] to [scream] out in one place, per one of the undocumented changes to verbs in 10.1.