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Most games do not model putting the key within the lock (though Zork II and IIRC Scroll Thief did); keys are implicitly placed in the lock before and removed from it afterwards. If you're going to require that, you might consider removing the "unlock ... with ..." command and replace it with a "unlo...

If adding the files via the tabs works, but writing the HTML explicitly doesn't, then try this: 1) Make a task that will hold the data. Mark it as system, but don't call it anywhere. 2) Add all resources to that task using the tabs. 3) Also write HTML that will call those resources on other tasks. I...

It sounds like the GET/TAKE task has somehow been marked as "Not repeatable".

Possible history of "Can't get into unwinnable states": 1) Early textual and graphical games made it possible for games to become unwinnable. 2) Sierra had a reputation for being pretty malicious about it. (In one game, you get an opportunity to sell something you no longer need. If you turn the buy...

I do see an issue: the value of that second property can change during gameplay. Suppose it's zero for its initial state, and is changed to a positive value during the game. Or if it's initially positive, but gets changed to zero during the game. What happens to the first property?

As you mentioned, my earlier posts were a bit incomplete. As for why resizing the map seems to make the problem go away (IMO, it's a different bug): 1) Whenever ADRIFT checks whether or not the player can go in a direction, it remembers the answer for a little while. (If it tries to check a directio...

Okay, root cause here (tech speak), is that the code to evaluate restrictions is not properly re-entrant. iRestNum should somehow be be localized to the scope of each call to passRestrictions. Instead, it has a single variable. What's going on is, to evaluate %ListExits[Player]%, ADRIFT checks each ...

I understand part of what's going on... First, as for why some restrictions are evaluated not at all: ADRIFT is trying to use "short-circuiting" logic. (So if there a task has "restriction1 AND restriction2", and restriction1 fails, then it doesn't even bother to evaluate restriction2; the task will...

As a programmer, I thank you for writing a clear bug report. "General bugV2.taf" is a good example of a Minimal, Verifiable, Complete Example ; I noticed something bizarre while trying to track this down: After resizing the map: Variable 'VesselDirections' must be equal to 1: Failed INSTR(%ExitsAvai...

I think Rat in Control could be run with n/s/e/w or left/right, to compare the usabilities of the two.

That text looks similar to the text generated by DisplayObjectChildren in
https://github.com/jcwild/ADRIFT-5/blob ... sObject.vb

Not a game, but Graham Nelson's Craft of Adventure ( http://inform-fiction.org/manual/html/ch8.html ) is a good general discussion of design in general.

The general rule I've heard is "The game should automate sub-actions which the player character wouldn't devote much thought to doing, and which are safe." To explain the second, most of the time, there's no downside to the player character leaving doors unlocked and open, so if the player tries to ...

I was able to run the Mono build from source on Windows.

I think there have been some auto pluralizing options in the past, so it's not new.