http://nickm.com/post/2009/07/plotkin-on-rule-based-if-programming/ Nick Montfort Wed, 02 May 2012 22:12:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://nickm.com/post/2009/07/plotkin-on-rule-based-if-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-746 Wiley Wiggins Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:09:39 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/2009/07/plotkin-on-rule-based-if-programming/#comment-746 <p>Bookmarking 'perform'. Thanks for the link!</p> Bookmarking ‘perform’. Thanks for the link!

]]> http://nickm.com/post/2009/07/plotkin-on-rule-based-if-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-745 Wiley Wiggins Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:08:56 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/2009/07/plotkin-on-rule-based-if-programming/#comment-745 <p>Well, I know some inform 7, I don't know <em>any</em> inform 6. I'm willing to learn though if it lets me get down to a lower level with generating and manipulating text.</p> Well, I know some inform 7, I don’t know any inform 6. I’m willing to learn though if it lets me get down to a lower level with generating and manipulating text.

]]> http://nickm.com/post/2009/07/plotkin-on-rule-based-if-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-735 Nick Montfort Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:50:41 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/2009/07/plotkin-on-rule-based-if-programming/#comment-735 <p>Wiley, I wrote a <a href="http://nickm.com/if/perform/" rel="nofollow">perceptron classifier in Inform 6,</a> and I'm pretty sure that this could also be done in a straightforward way in Inform 6 and embedded in I7 code. What's the obstacle to an Inform 6 implementation?</p> Wiley, I wrote a perceptron classifier in Inform 6, and I’m pretty sure that this could also be done in a straightforward way in Inform 6 and embedded in I7 code. What’s the obstacle to an Inform 6 implementation?

]]> http://nickm.com/post/2009/07/plotkin-on-rule-based-if-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-734 Wiley Wiggins Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:31:31 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/2009/07/plotkin-on-rule-based-if-programming/#comment-734 <p>I've been groping around for something I'm not entirely able to describe in Inform lately- I'm not an advanced Inform 7 programmer, but I've been looking for the ability to add some rule-based automatic text generation- markov chaining stuff for instance, to inform's abilities, in addition to the basic "room"/"object"/"actor" describing and manipulation that's already there- in order to create something a little less static and on rails and a little more unpredictable and alive. It's possible that if I dropped down deeper into inform 6 that there might be a way to do it, but I'm having a hard time getting linguistics ideas across to game-oriented folks.</p> I’ve been groping around for something I’m not entirely able to describe in Inform lately- I’m not an advanced Inform 7 programmer, but I’ve been looking for the ability to add some rule-based automatic text generation- markov chaining stuff for instance, to inform’s abilities, in addition to the basic “room”/”object”/”actor” describing and manipulation that’s already there- in order to create something a little less static and on rails and a little more unpredictable and alive. It’s possible that if I dropped down deeper into inform 6 that there might be a way to do it, but I’m having a hard time getting linguistics ideas across to game-oriented folks.

]]> http://nickm.com/post/2009/07/plotkin-on-rule-based-if-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-481 Mark J. Nelson Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:27:09 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/2009/07/plotkin-on-rule-based-if-programming/#comment-481 <p>Some of these ideas remind me of stuff the Oz Project papers mention in passing about their IF system. The GLINDA paper, for example, seems to be able to assume all sorts of first-class representations, rules that propagate event effects through the world model, etc. I can't seem to find anything actually about that IF system, though.</p> Some of these ideas remind me of stuff the Oz Project papers mention in passing about their IF system. The GLINDA paper, for example, seems to be able to assume all sorts of first-class representations, rules that propagate event effects through the world model, etc. I can’t seem to find anything actually about that IF system, though.

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