David A Cornelson

All the latest updates to Sharpee are now in the npm registry. Package Description @sharpee/sharpee Main package — re-exports all platform packages @sharpee/core Core functionality — semantic events, save/restore contracts, random @sharpee/engine Runtime engine — game loop, command execution, turn management @sharpee/world-model World model — entities, traits, behaviors, regions,

Note: This blog post started as an outline generated by Claude, but the details are mine and the character system was worked out through long conversations with Claude in how NPCs might converse differently. I started with the requirement that the system support unreliable narrators. Eventually I realized that character

Overview Sharpee stories can emit audio events that clients render as sound effects, background music, and ambient soundscapes. Audio is optional — text clients ignore audio events, and stories without audio are unaffected. The audio system follows the same separation as text: stories emit intent, clients render output. Stories never reference

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

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

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

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:

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.

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

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