As Alabaster is in large part an experiment with the underlying conversation system, I would very much welcome feedback about how the system behaves so that I can refine it for future use. As background: how much the system prompts … Continue reading
Currently there’s a release 3 available here. Release 3 addresses several bugs and adds new vocabulary for certain actions. It also plays significantly faster on slow machines, especially under Windows. (I haven’t built a Windows installers for this yet, so … Continue reading
So I’ve been working more on the Alabaster graphics — really the main thing that is still left before release. (Re my complaints back here, I think I have fixed the very worst speed hangup with optimizations in my own … Continue reading
The remaining significant work on Alabaster consists of building the graphical status line on the left side of the screen. My original idea was that this image should give hints about Snow White’s current state of mind (or your state … Continue reading
Have now: had more human beta-testing and incorporated the feedback (of which there was not a huge amount) removed the Conversation Builder extension and commented out a lot of the support code from the main game file, so that what … Continue reading
Having got rid of the annoying flaw in disambiguation (I hope), I’ve posted the latest build of Alabaster. The plan at the moment is to do a little more beta-testing to make sure that the conversation is sufficiently rounded out; … Continue reading
