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Gamefic on Pivotal Tracker
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Gamefic Adventure Games and Interactive Fiction. Gamefic on Pivotal Tracker. By Gamefic on 6-6-2015. Today I created a public project for Gamefic. On Pivotal Tracker. I'll be using it to manage the development of new features and measure progress. The first items in the tracker are the Save/Restore/Undo features. These have been a long time coming. I already have prototypes that work in the terminal, but I'm hoping to make it work for web games as well. I'll still be following issues on the GitHub repo.
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Managing and Customizing Scenes
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Gamefic Adventure Games and Interactive Fiction. Managing and Customizing Scenes. By Gamefic on 6-1-2015. The new system resolves this problem by allowing a scene to have two procs called start and finish. In an Active scene, the process looks like this:. Start by handling any processes that need to occur before the player acts. (In the default implementation, the start proc does nothing; but this could be overriden, for example, to increment a turn counter.). Wait for the user to enter a command. As wit...
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Reevaluating the DSL
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Gamefic Adventure Games and Interactive Fiction. By Gamefic on 6-21-2015. This weekend I pushed a new repo branch that includes a major refactoring of the plot DSL. The syntax for plot scripts is largely unchanged, but the new code behind it uses a new module called the Stage. I based it on the Clean Room pattern described in Metaprogramming Ruby. And further developed by Seth Vargo. Including the Stage module can make any class capable of loading code from a Ruby DSL. Load filename, true. Stage also pro...
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Fred Snyder's Bibliography
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It's Supposed to Sound Like That. 1-15-2009 â 0 comments. 12-26-2008 â 2 comments. Where the Party's At. 1-7-2009 â 0 comments. 12-29-2008 â 0 comments. 12-26-2008 â 2 comments. These are some of my stories that have been published in print or online. Last night two patrolmen responded to a report of a trespasser in the old train yard on Choctaw. The suspect shot his way out. Dropped one with a pump shotgun, tagged the other with a nine-millimeter. [Read the whole story]. Beat to a Pulp. 32, Nov 2004.
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New Story: The Colombian - Archive - Valley Bound
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It's Supposed to Sound Like That. 1-15-2009 â 0 comments. 12-26-2008 â 2 comments. Where the Party's At. 1-7-2009 â 0 comments. 12-29-2008 â 0 comments. 12-26-2008 â 2 comments. New Story: The Colombian. By Fred on 2-21-2011 â Category: Miscellany. Spinetingler published my story The Colombian. ÂHowâs it going, Marco? Â The visitor stopped at the bottom of the stairs. ÂYou never visit with good news, Albright.â. The detective smeared the sweat on his forehead. âYour brotherâs in trouble again.â.
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Unphotogenic Man - Fiction - Valley Bound
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It's Supposed to Sound Like That. 1-15-2009 â 0 comments. 12-26-2008 â 2 comments. Where the Party's At. 1-7-2009 â 0 comments. 12-29-2008 â 0 comments. 12-26-2008 â 2 comments. For a list of fiction and articles published elsewhere. By Fred on 12-29-2008 â Category: Fiction. Welcome back, true believers! When we last left our hero, he had just foiled a dastardly mugging after the culprit fainted at the sight of his driver's license. In today's episode, Unphotogenic Man becomes. The Man Who Blew to Mulch!
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Where the Party's At - Fiction - Valley Bound
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It's Supposed to Sound Like That. 1-15-2009 â 0 comments. 12-26-2008 â 2 comments. Where the Party's At. 1-7-2009 â 0 comments. 12-29-2008 â 0 comments. 12-26-2008 â 2 comments. For a list of fiction and articles published elsewhere. Where the Party's At. By Fred on 1-7-2009 â Category: Fiction. I took the stool next to her and said hi. What are you drinking? Lemon martini, she said. His name was Will. He liked to tell people to call him Big Willie. Not much, I said. What's up with you? Sure, she said.
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It's Supposed to Sound Like That - Articles - Valley Bound
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It's Supposed to Sound Like That. 1-15-2009 â 0 comments. 12-26-2008 â 2 comments. Where the Party's At. 1-7-2009 â 0 comments. 12-29-2008 â 0 comments. 12-26-2008 â 2 comments. For a list of fiction and articles published elsewhere. It's Supposed to Sound Like That. By Fred on 1-15-2009 â Category: Articles. It's homage, you'll say. It should still provide a fresh perspective. Otherwise we might as well read the original. But that's how it really happened. Accept the possibility that your life does ...
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Historical Anachronisms in the New Sherlock Holmes Movie - Archive - Valley Bound
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It's Supposed to Sound Like That. 1-15-2009 â 0 comments. 12-26-2008 â 2 comments. Where the Party's At. 1-7-2009 â 0 comments. 12-29-2008 â 0 comments. 12-26-2008 â 2 comments. Historical Anachronisms in the New Sherlock Holmes Movie. By Fred on 1-6-2010 â Category: Miscellany. Guy Ritchie's blockbuster version of Sherlock Holmes. May be entertaining, but there were quite a few moments when historical inaccuracies ruined my suspension of disbelief. These are just a few of them. Phrameworks 2.0.1.
