[ANN] Snap - new IF language!
Dan Shiovitz
language for IF design! Rather than bore you all with a list of
features, I'll just include my implementation of Cloak of Darkness so
you can get a feel for the language:
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Pretty inituitive, eh? Anyway, for more information, I've put up a
page with a FAQ: http://www.drizzle.com/~dans/if/snap/index.html
And remember, Snap makes IF a snap!
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Dan Shiovitz :: d...@cs.wisc.edu :: http://www.drizzle.com/~dans
"He settled down to dictate a letter to the Consolidated Nailfile and
Eyebrow Tweezer Corporation of Scranton, Pa., which would make them
realize that life is stern and earnest and Nailfile and Eyebrow Tweezer
Corporations are not put in this world for pleasure alone." -PGW
DI Gunther Schmidl
> I am pleased to announce that I've completed work on a powerful new
> language for IF design! Rather than bore you all with a list of
> features, I'll just include my implementation of Cloak of Darkness so
> you can get a feel for the language:
>
> c
>
As you can clearly see at this link (removed because I don't want someone
else ripping it off), Mr. Shiovitz has ripped off my new IF language. In
fact, the sample cited below (omitted because I don't want someone else
ripping it off) is exactly the same, except my name has been
searched-and-replaced with Mr. Shiovitz'.
My lawyers will contact you, Mr. Shiovitz, and hunt you down like the dog
you are.
-- SGO
Fang
Great! I am considering using Snap to code my first ifcomp entry...
Mark J. Tilford
> I am pleased to announce that I've completed work on a powerful new
> language for IF design! Rather than bore you all with a list of
> features, I'll just include my implementation of Cloak of Darkness so
> you can get a feel for the language:
>
> c
>
> Pretty inituitive, eh? Anyway, for more information, I've put up a
> page with a FAQ: http://www.drizzle.com/~dans/if/snap/index.html
>
> And remember, Snap makes IF a snap!
>
This is incredible! I'd been working on my competition game for years; it
took only 15 minutes to get it working fully, and the source code is only 15
characters long! (Though 9 of those characters were used to implement the
rope, and it took 2 more for the yodeling puzzle.)
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Mark Jeffrey Tilford
til...@ugcs.caltech.edu
Adam Thornton
>And remember, Snap makes IF a snap!
Why should I use Snap rather than RAIF-Pool? Just the concision?
Adam
Michael Chapman Martin
> Why should I use Snap rather than RAIF-Pool? Just the concision?
Brevity is the soul of wit, why not of IF too?
--MichaeL
Adam Thornton
Maybe. Running snap with itself as input is an illuminating
experience. So is running snap with "itself" as input, although that's
less illuminating.
Adam
Søren J. Løvborg
> language for IF design!
Some players will claim that the parser is bad or that it needs pronoun
support, and some authors will be asking for real-time input, countdowns
or colour cycling, or that the GUI needs more icons and progress bars, but
personally I find such features to be nothing but a burden, distracting from
the underlying literary experience, whether you're playing or writing a
game.
And what marvelous games you can author in this language!
Finally, I'm happy to see that you've chosen not to make the language
case-sensitive. I am already in the process of converting my current
projects to this new, superior development system.
--
Søren J. Løvborg
k...@it.dk
J. J. Guest
> I am pleased to announce that I've completed work on a powerful new
> language for IF design! Rather than bore you all with a list of
> features, I'll just include my implementation of Cloak of Darkness so
> you can get a feel for the language:
>
> c
>
> Pretty inituitive, eh? Anyway, for more information, I've put up a
> page with a FAQ: http://www.drizzle.com/~dans/if/snap/index.html
>
> And remember, Snap makes IF a snap!
Brilliant! I have consigned all my other IF writing systems to the
recycle bin. From now on Snap's the one for me!
Eric Forgeot
And will it include graphics and sounds as well ?
Maybe for next year I will include this in my project "gns" (gasp's
not snap). it will also include a debuger (even if with only one
letter such a code is easy to maintain...)
d...@cs.wisc.edu (Dan Shiovitz) wrote in message news:<c4gpeb$kud$1...@drizzle.com>...
David Thornley
>language for IF design! Rather than bore you all with a list of
>features, I'll just include my implementation of Cloak of Darkness so
>you can get a feel for the language:
>
> c
>
>Pretty inituitive, eh? Anyway, for more information, I've put up a
>page with a FAQ: http://www.drizzle.com/~dans/if/snap/index.html
>
of accessing the site, I had written a Snap game. I don't think
I had one of the puzzles implemented well, but certainly if I had
spent another ten minutes I could have done better.
Anyway, I just have to share the source code for this:
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Cirk R. Bejnar
Does RAIF-Pool have Hq9+ support? I think that that is the best
feature of Snap myself. Certainly that's why I am planning to write
my next game in it.
Cirk R. Bejnar
Adam Thornton
Cirk R. Bejnar <eluch...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>ad...@fsf.net (Adam Thornton) wrote in message
>news:<c4hp21$285$1...@news.fsf.net>...
>> In article <c4gpeb$kud$1...@drizzle.com>, Dan Shiovitz <d...@cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
>> >And remember, Snap makes IF a snap!
>> Why should I use Snap rather than RAIF-Pool? Just the concision?
>feature of Snap myself. Certainly that's why I am planning to write
>my next game in it.
RAIF-Pool either supports HQ9+, or will make you realize you didn't want
HQ9+ support after all, depending on its mood[0].
Adam
[0] Which is usually subjunctive contrafactual.
Bennett Standeven
Well, I can't figure out how to implement " My First Adventure" in RAIF-Pool.
Every time I try, it prints the error message: "This game isn't worth the
effort of compiling." Is this just a bug?