Hi there!
I’d like to showcase the first program I’ve ever built. Marauder is a cross-platform tool that aims to make mapping a lot easier for IF games. It integrates the Quixe interpreter and therefore works for games in Glulx format.
Some of its features include:
- Automatic mapping of the game’s rooms and connections.
- A multi-layer display system to display rooms on different floors
- Quick travel to the desired room
- Note taking for rooms
- Automatic exploration (an attempt to build part of the map before diving into the game)
- Save/Load maps for future playthroughs
- The option to add rooms/connections manually if the player wants to do so
You can find everything here
In order to use Marauder you will have to follow the instructions below:
Install Python and add it to the PATH.
Install python’s library, Textblob and its necessary corpora by running the following commands in your terminal:
pip install textblob
python -m textblob.download_corpora
python -m nltk.downloader punkt_tab
python -m nltk.downloader averaged_perceptron_tagger_eng
On a more technical level it is built with Electron, using Javascript and a bit of Python. Room detection employs rule-based filtering and Natural Language Processing. Quick traveling is achieved by implementing the BFS algorithm. Automatic exploration uses a combination of the DFS algorithm + backtracking to find new rooms. Maps are saved as JSON files.
This program is my baby and i really hope you find it useful!
In case you want to contribute to make it even better let me know.
Cheers!