Unofficial polls and discussion for the 2021 XYZZY awards (including tech development)

[StJohnLimbo]

@mathbrush

Does anyone have any ideas for technological development?

The FrankenDrift interpreter and the Puddle BuildTools were released in 2021:

"FrankenDrift": Play ADRIFT games on Mac and Linux

Back in May I started work on a project to make ADRIFT games playable on macOS and Linux. The project was quickly put on the back burner when COVID cases in Germany plummeted and I suddenly had a life outside of the internet again, so it’s still a bit basic – graphics and sound are conspicuously absent – but since we have an ADRIFT entry in ParserComp I figured I’d push this development version out right now. [Bildschirmfoto 2021-07-01 um 12.33.13] [grafik] As you can see, text effects (bold…

Puddle BuildTools for PunyInform releases

I just released the Puddle BuildTools - An Infocom Z-machine build environment for 25 retro computer systems, preconfigured for PunyInform. Everything is modular designed, you can easily add a new wrapper script and make it compatible with something else, e.g. ZILF as long as it produces Z-machine output