My So Called Interactive Fiction Life

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David A Cornelson

ADR 014 - Unrestricted World Model Access

So we ran into a goofy problem that would only happen in a modern architecture. Encapsulation is something IF development has rarely adhered to and Sharpee leans into it. The event source and spatial indexing (the implemented world model) have event-based interfaces and you currently can't change things

Integration Testing Exposes Flaw

So far the unit testing had gone very smoothly. The architecture was holding up. Until we got to the integration testing, there were no major flaws. But these last tests showed a shallow, but wide problem in our entities. We had been using the name as the id, but that

World Model Testing Pt 1.

There were some challenges here, specifically visibility. I have about 10 ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) that I'll share that address complex issues like lighting. We implemented a baseline standard isDark lighting system and this can be replaced with future extensions. PASS tests/unit/world/visibility-behavior.test.ts (18.

Sharpee Platform Architecture

Is very nearly complete. I have a baseline story (Cloak of Darkness) somewhat working as expect. Enough to believe the architecture is solid. So how do we prove it outside of a big game? Unit testing. I have completed unit test suites for the packages Core, Event Processor, and am

Sharpee's Architecture Solidifies

Rewind A little over three years ago I started playing around with elements of a new IF Platform built in C#. The vision included a graph data store, text service, and not much else. Then when ChatGPT arrived, I was able to make some progress, especially learning new patterns, but

Sharpee: Process an IF turn entirely Without Text

As I develop Sharpee, one design decision has clarified significantly. During the processing of a turn, the system won't generate or "print" any text. None. But wait Dave! This IS an interactive (text) fiction authoring thing you're building, right? Yes, but is streaming print

Sharpee's Text Emission Strategy

One of the foundational aspects I decided for Sharpee was to use modern architecture. The world model is stored in a bi-directional graph and that is fully working and tested. The next "layer" is the IF "things" and then Grammar, Parser, Language, Game Runner, and the

Sharpee's Architecture Solidifies

I have a lot to talk about at this point in the development of my C# interactive fiction authoring platform called Sharpee. The "design" of the system is coming to a working and well-defined point. One of the first things I had envisioned in developing this platform was

I may have found a template for GenAI

It's been a few weeks since I worked on Sharpee. Tonight, I think I found a workable template for using GenAI (Claude Sonnet 3.5) to help with the coding. I've set up a set of basic rules for the project as such: "You are

The Limitations of LLMs

As much as I love the new technology from Anthropic, it still has the same limitations that all LLMs have had since ChatGPT was released. They eventually forget what you're doing and what they've done for you. There needs to be two things integrated into LLMs