Monthly Archives: July 2020

Uncovered! CROCODRACULA: THE BEGINNING

You can play this game right now! But you should probably find out where it came from first:

A few months ago, I came into the possession of a copy of a very old, very rare text adventure game. I happened to be poking around in—Well, maybe I should start from further back.

THE STORY SO FAR

A few years ago, I came into the possession of a copy of a very old, very rare text adventure game titled Crocodracula: What Happened to Calvin. Feeling an obligation toward the preservation of an oft-overlooked art form, I—

—Actually, I should go back even further.

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The Imitable Process of Ryan Veeder: Additional Autosaving Techniques for Inform 7

There are a few more things I should say about implementing autosaving in Inform 7. In the previous posts I neglected to address how these techniques interact with the default verbs UNDO, SAVE, and RESTORE, which was a bit of an oversight. I’ll get around to that now, and then I’ll show you a couple of other neat things you can do with autosaving.

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