Comments on: Starborn: play statistics

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By: Juhana

Juhana — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:29:48 +0000

In reply to Antti Ki. Antti: Sure. I'm moving to making a proposal of integrating this to the official Parchment branch, but in the meanwhile I can package what I have and send that. Might take a day or two while I put everything together...

By: Antti Ki

Antti Ki — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:47:04 +0000

Hi,

Excellent stuff, this is.

I'm working on a game prototype that would really profit from a Parchment hack that would enable saving transcripts of a game session to the server. Could you consider sharing the source code of your hack with me?

By: Jacqueline

Jacqueline — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:54:59 +0000

Thank you so much for this, J. It's a very interesting analysis that not only illuminates some interesting perspectives on how people approach IF play, but the value in embracing Parchment.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:35:20 +0000

Maybe something like Inform's dismbig stuff, where it takes a decent guess at what you meant and tells you what correction it's made?

FOUCALT
(I assume you meant FOUCAULT)

That way, the player is made aware that they've made a mistake (and will hopefully learn to improve their spelling :) ), but it doesn't stall their gameplay.

By: interactive fiction blog

interactive fiction blog — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:32:32 +0000

Wie IF gespielt wird...

Mit Starborn, einem der ersten Spiele 2011, hat die Autorin Juhana Leinonen etwas Statistik betrieben und dafür über 1.500 Transkripte ausgewertet, die über die Online-Version des Spiels mitgeschnitten wurden. Es ist allerdings kein typisches Spiel, da...

By: Dannii

Dannii — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:07:29 +0000

Oh, and just to be precise, most of the stats I counted were for your site, as it still uses my proxy. I'm not sure how many hits there were on parchment.googlecode.com.

By: Juhana

Juhana — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:34:34 +0000

In reply to george. George: Considering that almost 10% of players tried a "normal" IF command right after being told that the story uses a keyword parser, I'd guess that the percentage is quite high. (Of course some people might have just tried a verb command even though they weren't familiar with IF before.)