My So Called Interactive Fiction Life

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Latest — Mar 28, 2026

Computer Science and Parser IF in Sharpee

This post explains the data structures and algorithms behind Sharpee, a parser-based interactive fiction engine built in TypeScript. It's written for developers who learn best by seeing how CS concepts appear in real, working code rather than in textbook abstractions. Every decision I made from early 2024 through

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Sharpee Lantern

As a part of the development of Sharpee, I had always intended to build on top of it some kind of interactive writing tool. To be clear, not an IDE or development environment like VC Code and not like Inform 7. Something "else". When Sharpee was still thought

Jack Toresal and The Secret Letter Ported to OpenSilver

The original Silverlight game had been more or less impossible to play for many years since the downfall of Microsoft Silverlight. Since then a French company supported an open source version of Silverlight called OpenSilver that compiles to WASM. This is a port of the original 2009 Silverlight book paradigm

Port of Mainframe Zork Complete

This also recognizes the release beta of Sharpee. I still have to update npm, but Sharpee is capable of building stories, web clients, and Zifmia story files. The version you see above will flip to 0.9.91, but that's just housekeeping. The website is updated as well:

Orbiting the Planet Dungeon

Getting so close to completing Mainframe Zork and Version 1.0.0 of Sharpee. Here's a list of things I've accomplished in the last few days: * Full walkthrough of everything except the end game with some minor bugs in the Royal Puzzle. * New npm release 0.

Walk Through Testing in Sharpee

I started porting Mainframe Zork to burn through the Sharpee platforms issues. This has been an excellent choice since Dungeon is a masterpiece of crazy puzzle illusions. In order to run testing, I implemented GDT (Game Debugging Tool) which was a part of the original Dungeon PDP-10/11 implementation. It

Official Sharpee 0.9.62-beta

I accomplished a lot of polish for an official Sharpee release, though still in beta. The story runner Zifmia has downloads for Windows, Ubuntu, and MacOS. (if other Linux distro downloads are needed, let me know and I'll add them). The website is now up to date with

Refactoring through our 123rd ADR

ADR stands for Architecture Decision Record. It's a critical aspect of producing well-designed code using GenAI (in my case I use Claude Code). The idea of an ADR is to capture something platform-sized. Something that improves the overall code base plus the developer and author experience. Hopefully, someone

Sharpee.Net

Sharpee has it's own home outside of github now. Visit https://sharpee.net/. There are quick start and author guides along with the beta port of Mainframe Zork aka Dungeon. The platform is also in beta and can be used to create stories. I only have the thin

Little Bits and Pieces

In the last week I've been play-testing the port of Dungeon which has exposed many things about Sharpee and the Dungeon implementation. Many many things. Just the first ten to twenty turns of Dungeon have uncovered a lot of issues. The troll logic is actually quite complicated. Had

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