Cloak of Darkness has become something of a rite of passage for parser based IF systems. I had a quick stab at implementing it in Rez (still a few bugs to iron out), but for choice based games it doesn’t make half as much, the “discover the verb” based puzzling is not their forte. Has anyone imagi…

Last year we used the “Mini-Cluedo” challenge to demonstrate parser-like features in choice-based systems ( proposal , spec , implementations in Dialog , Strand , Gruescript , Harlowe , SugarCube , Dendry ), but that’s specifically about systematicity (being able to assemble a set of choices based on the sta…

[image] Josh Grams: Do you have a thought of what kind of thing that might be? I’m struggling a little to think of something that couldn’t be expressed as a combination of visited choice counts, since that’s what most things in a choice game are The classic situation is that 2+ choices lead t…

I have updated the game/specs/source code to include the ability to customize your scarf color and have it referenced later. I think anything else is a bit out of scope for this demo in particular!

I’ve played the demo now - whatever Itch was using to block VPN users was either temporary or only applied to that one VPN location or both, since I can get in now. It has some nice sensory details for a demo game; the original Cloak of Darkness is much more minimalist. (And what a variety of scarf …

Once I have some time I’m going to try it in Dialog, using its actual choice-select mode (rather than effectively building a tiny parser from scratch for Mini-Cluedo). I find that mode pretty unwieldy compared to its parser mode, but it’ll be nice to have a demonstration of exactly how unwieldy comp…

Oh! Now I’m wondering about using Hybrid Choices for this in I7. Hmmmm…

I believe that one’s the inspiration for Dialog’s choice mode! It’s primarily meant for short choice segments in a parser game (like dialogue trees), since Dialog’s syntax is kind of cumbersome for making lots of choices.

I’d like to put this somewhere that’s not the forums, should I try IFWiki? Are people happy enough with it for me to do that?

Here it is on IFWiki ! Also added it to IFDB and the IFArchive.

I wanted to try and make this myself. I don’t think it is completely accurate yet but wanted to get some feedback. I downloaded the twee source code and did my best at reading it. I didn’t add any ability to look at the items. They could be added but only as menu’ing choices. Hopefully you can tell …

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