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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.

Very subjective here, but I've found that, when doing fully automated conversions, high level target languages don't work well. (If the conversion output is to be the first step, and will be manually processed after that, a high-level target can work.)

I tried building from source, and when I downloaded the Infragistics library, my AV complained about it. (I was able to able to build and run the Mono version of the runner.)

Maybe that's triggering the AV. What does that Infragistics library do, and can you remove it from the system?

Does Adrift offer support of read and write to external files? Maybe you could just export all the stats and inventory that way. ADRIFT does not. Even if ADRIFT did have external file access, there would still be some problems; as Denk mentioned, weapons need to be transferable between games. The A...

First, good luck! You've taken on an ambitious project and I hope it works out well.

Denk wrote:... and in the long run hopefully many more.

That may not be a good idea... Will all the games be stored in a single TAF? Then won't moving to a later version require resetting all your progress?