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The story of failures in automatic text adventure testing
Testing a text adventure game is very important. There are many types of testing that needs to be done, and most of it has to be done by hand. I tried automating some testing and also blogged about automatically testing adventure games before. Now it is time to share some examples where automatic testing goes… Read more
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When the text adventure simulation becomes alive (or when engine becomes smarter than you)
In software development I always find the following situation one of the most satisfying moments: When the actual result of code is not what I expected, however, on closer examination I find that my expectation was wrong: the code actually works better than what I imagined. It produces the right result even though I did… Read more
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Getting back into IF again
I made a text adventure game in 2019 for the Interactive Fiction competition, called Bradford Mansion. It didn’t finish last, but I hoped it could do better. I was not satisfied with how it went. So I decided to try again. I took some learning points from that game into the next one, which will… Read more
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Testing a text adventure
How do you test a text adventure? Is manual testing the only way or could you automate some testing? When creating Bradford Mansion, I wanted to test certain aspects of the game. In this article I will write about what kind of test mechanics I developed for the game / engine. If you are not… Read more
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Halloween window display
This year we decided with my 6 and a half year old son to make a Halloween project. We decided to make a window display, with scary figures cut out of paper and a Raspberry Pi providing lighting for it. How it looks Here are the lights when turned on (keep watching to the end).… Read more
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Bradford Mansion
I created a classic parser based text adventure game called Bradford Mansion, and entered it into the 2019 Interactive Fiction competition. You can go over there and play it right now (as I write this, judging is about to begin). To download the game, visit the game on the IFCOMP 2019 site.Visit the IFDB entry… Read more
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What is this?
Welcome to my new development blog. My main blog is located at http://www.lenardgunda.com and deals mostly with computers and devices (and mostly Lenovo things). Originally I planned adding coding content there too, but I felt this was a different thing, that warranted its own blog. This blog is intended to be about software development. I… Read more
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