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It’s that time of year again — when Jack<\/a> and I write another open-source text adventure together!<\/p>\n Every time we do a project like this, we try to push our own boundaries and try something new. Rover’s Day Out<\/a> was our first full-length work and was our first foray into taking advantage of the deeper features of the Inform7<\/a> programming language. Our second work, Hoosegow<\/a>, was an attempt to create humorous and relevant non-player characters in a constrained environment. Our third work was a quickie challenge — we wrote 95% of Lobsters on a Plane<\/a> in a single day for a ‘speed’ competition.<\/p>\n Our fourth and latest work, Narrow Your Eyes<\/a>, was written as part of a ‘tribute’ collection<\/a> for the 20th anniversary of the Apollo 18 album<\/a> by They Might Be Giants. There’s a short interactive fiction game written for each album track, and I suggest you go play them all!<\/p>\n In this game, we decided to push the boundaries of the Glulx<\/a> interpreter a bit by creating a puzzle that requires graphics and utilizes sound. It sounds a bit heretical, but we assure you that there is still important textual accompaniment to the graphics portion. For this reason, the game isn’t yet playable in a web browser. You’ll need to download a suitable interpreter for your operating system: either Spatterlight<\/a> for Mac, Glulxe<\/a> for Windows, or Gargoyle<\/a> for Linux. You can grab the game itself from our downloads<\/a> page and open it with the interpreter. Once you start, don’t forget to turn on your speakers!<\/p>\n Another challenge this game was an attempt to write some basic artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms in the Inform 7 language. If you’ve already played the game, you can read about that in the spoiler below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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