{"id":947,"date":"2012-02-17T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/17\/playfic-an-online-toolset-and-community-for-easily-making-text-adventure-games\/"},"modified":"2012-02-17T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T00:01:00","slug":"playfic-an-online-toolset-and-community-for-easily-making-text-adventure-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/17\/playfic-an-online-toolset-and-community-for-easily-making-text-adventure-games\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayFic: an online toolset and community for easily making text-adventure games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/RpAvyVcB8qQ\/playfic-an-online-toolset-and.html\">PlayFic: an online toolset and community for easily making text-adventure games<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/craphound.com\/images\/playfic.gif?w=625\"><\/p>\n<p>Andy Baio and his 15-year-old nephew Cooper McHatton created PlayFic, &#8220;a community for writing, sharing, and playing interactive fiction games (aka &#8216;text adventures&#8217;) entirely from your browser, using a &#8216;natural language&#8217;-inspired language called Inform 7.&#8221; Basically, it&#8217;s a site for making your own Zork-style games, sharing them, critiquing them, and collaborating on them. It includes a &#8220;view game source&#8221; button that, like the &#8220;view source&#8221; item in browsers, can be used to kick-start your own progress into creation by seeing how the work you admire is put together. Waxy sez,&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<\/p>\n<p>My hope is that Playfic opens up the world of interactive fiction to a much wider audience \u2014 young writers, fanfic authors, and culture remixers of all ages.<\/p>\n<p>While the language can be tricky, building simple games is surprisingly easy. Cooper had never coded anything or made a game before trying Playfic, and within 30 minutes of futzing around, he&#8217;d made his first game.<\/p>\n<p>Some stuff is broken and missing, but I&#8217;d love to hear what you make of it. Open to any and all feedback. Go make some games!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/playfic.com\/\">Playfic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<i>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wonderlandblog.com\/\">Wonderland<\/a><\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=e60b41230f885307a851543339f1570a&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=e60b41230f885307a851543339f1570a&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tags.bluekai.com\/site\/5148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&#038;adv=wouzn4v&#038;fmt=3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/RpAvyVcB8qQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PlayFic: an online toolset and community for easily making text-adventure games: Andy Baio and his 15-year-old nephew Cooper McHatton created PlayFic, &#8220;a community for writing, sharing, and playing interactive fiction games (aka &#8216;text adventures&#8217;) entirely from your browser, using a &#8216;natural language&#8217;-inspired language called Inform 7.&#8221; Basically, it&#8217;s a site for making your own Zork-style [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-fh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}