Gamefic: Testing Interactive Fiction with Automated Gameplay

Gamefic: Testing Interactive Fiction with Automated Gameplay

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I've been experimenting with player bots for interactive fiction. Besides being a fun exercise, I thought they might be a useful debugging tool. I even thought they might be able to prove the "validity" of a story model, e.g., that the story can never be played into an unfinishable state. I'm not sure that's possible with a non-trivial story, but I figured I'd give it a shot. Read More

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August 1, 2016 at 11:25AM