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 … More The story of failures in automatic text adventure testing
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 … More When the text adventure simulation becomes alive (or when engine becomes smarter than you)
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 … More Getting back into IF again
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