Incline Who else thinks the text parser is coming back?

[SCO]

Considering how text to speech technology has advanced recently, especially through large datasets like google stuff, i think it's only a question of time and someone will put 2 and 2 together and get 5. The technical problems i foresee is the huge data requirements for effective TTS and large processing usage, however that data requirement can be very simplified by just cutting down the 'effective words' the game has to recall since, after all the required or even optional wording to interact with a game is limited.

Actually something like a general one for IF would be very much possible without recoding games i think (not the most efficient for single games you understand, because cutting down on the corpus would be very helpful)


The social problems will be to appear as a huge dork to anyone who is watching you play a game by talking to your computer.

 

[Gregz]

Doesn't make sense in a 3D environment, except for macros like 'travel home' where home is set as a map marker.

 

[SCO]

Wat? What does movement have to do with contextual actions? Good text parsers ALWAYS interpret where you're trying to do a action, so for instance 'talk to lilian' might walk the toon to where lilian is. Hybrid systems where mouse or keypad do it for movement are also possible and likely.

 

[JudasIscariot]

Well, the Cabrera Brothers DID make an adventure game with a text parser, Cypher, and that did tout the text entry feature of the game.

See for yourself http://www.cabrerabrothers.com/

 

[Gregz]

Wat? What does movement have to do with contextual actions? Good text parsers ALWAYS interpret where you're trying to do a action, so for instance 'talk to lilian' might walk the toon to where lilian is. Hybrid systems where mouse or keypad do it for movement are also possible and likely.

Like I said, the only utility I can see here is to allow the player to minimize tedious travel in hiking sims. Your example is one of many that works, but if she's right in front of me I'll just right-click -> talk.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

full text parsers? i don't know, i doubt i'd really like them. but i absolutely loved wizardry 8 dialogue system.

 

[Blackthorne]

Man, I enjoy them, but they can be an asspain to program and implement! But if you talk the time, it can make for a more fun and interactive environment.


Bt

 

[suejak]

I really enjoyed programming games for the Sierra AGI Sarien Interpreter. There's definitely more freedom to a good parser game, although a poorly made one can be an obnoxious exercise in guess-the-designer's-vocabulary.

Roberta Williams text parser games are probably the best examples of badly designed parser adventures. I swear to God you have to read that woman's bland little mind to play games like King's Quest III and Laura Bow.