IF engine as a javascript library?

[wileyw...@gmail.com]

I like the ease of writing Inform 7 but I am frustrated by how hard it is to change the standard text-parser input/ text and figures only output. Even using a pure javascript interpreter like Quixe, an inform story is still kind of in a black box, and it's difficult to even add hyperlinks to output, much less do something radical, like add a roguelike style map, or replace the text parser input with buttons.

Are there any interactive fiction tools that exist as say, a javascript library that could be combined with other resources, running outside of a virtual machine, so that the story could interact with other DOM elements, and the textual part of the game could be built upon?

[Robin Johnson]

On Sunday, November 29, 2015 at 4:19:23 AM UTC, wileyw...@gmail.com wrote:
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> Are there any interactive fiction tools that exist as say, a javascript library
> that could be combined with other resources, running outside of a virtual
> machine, so that the story could interact with other DOM elements, and the
> textual part of the game could be built upon?

I don't know about combining it with other resources, but I've implemented an IF engine in Javascript at http://versificator.net . The data structures are a bit weird (I know more Javascript now than I did when I wrote it) but it could do any DOM manipulation that Javascript is allowed to do. Feel free to poke around in the source.

Robin Johnson

[wileyw...@gmail.com]

Cool, I'll check it out!