...that is neither game nor fiction, a problem that developers addressed by switching their focus from open-ended storytelling to the setting of goal...

...developed with a bunch of titles over time (Choice of Games, Episode, Choices again).
Also, I consider “commercially successful parser” to be such a...

...ChoiceScript supports that style with a code feature it calls fairmath, which lets the author give proportional bonuses to a character depending on how...

...becomes a tedious unoptimizable guessing game involving dozens of options.
Then phase two: you have three little builders whom you can assign to work...

...the game is short. I’m not sure how you could do this in a long game. Possibly the investigation portion would have to...

...a conversation model for your work
- How to use ask/tell (chapter on Basic Actions; Conversation Rules extension)
- How to substitute in TALK TO...

...I saw an excellent talk several years ago about how Pixar animators use a Pareto distribution to distribute a few large objects and a...

...I am not quite using the original sticker set purely because when I originally wrote the game, the grouping included a reference to a...

...Which is a lot of engagement, especially given how many games I’d already been through.
Overall, this game shows the attention to detail...

...A fresh setting or
genre is worth a lot to players trekking through 40-odd games.
Primrose Path (6)
One great visionary puzzle/moment...