123 points by smartmic 10 hours ago | 9 comments
rsalus 2 minutes ago
so cool! how does this compare to ChoiceScript?

https://www.choiceofgames.com/make-your-own-games/choicescri...

inigyou 3 hours ago
Inform 7 will forever be the best language, not because it's a good language, but because of the way programmers react when you present them a page of Inform 7 code.

https://github.com/I7-Examples/Bronze/blob/main/Bronze.infor...

photios 1 hour ago
I wonder if someone's tried IF tools like Inform 7 as the specification language you give an LLM agent. Looks like a good way to describe UI screens.
ElFitz 1 hour ago
Would also work very well for "open prompts" interpreted and mapped to one of the available options by a LLM. As some sort of constraints.
yjftsjthsd-h 12 minutes ago
What do you mean, that's just a text file full of prose-

Oh.

Oh no.

(Seriously, that's either very clever and perfectly reasonable, or... Not. Haven't decided which. Guess someone had to follow COBOL's footsteps.)

Edit: Thought about it more, and I've decided that for the intended users that's excellent. In the same way I wish formal proof languages would just use alphanumeric reserved words like a normal programming language, meeting writers closer to home is probably a helpful step that need not have any real downsides assuming you document it well.

ElFitz 1 hour ago
I am glad to have checked that one out. I don’t know whether to be amazed or horrified.
queeshonda 7 hours ago
I thought these are tools for managing an Open source version control system designed for scalability?
antran22 2 hours ago
You are confusing it with Lore [0], which is currently also on the HN frontpage [1]

[0]: https://lore.org [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571081

bschmidt900 4 hours ago
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er4hn 6 hours ago
I wonder how it compares to https://github.com/inkle/ink of Sorcery! and 80 days fame?
sltkr 6 hours ago
There is a comparison here: https://loreline.app/en/docs/comparison/
riidom 6 hours ago
What I missed in the docs: Is there some out of the box deploy target? Ink has a web export for example, so if that's all you need you don't need to deal with any middleware aspects and simply write your game, export for web and get the interface for free, basically.
gcampos 4 hours ago
I like how readable the script is!

Long time ago I build my own interactive story system, but it was more focused on visuals and portability

xmprt 6 hours ago
I like how in the example gif, barista.name is set in the "Your name is Alex, right" block, implying that the barista didn't have a name/didn't know their name until after being prompted.
SpyCoder77 7 hours ago
Comments:

10% The post

90% Epic Games' version control system

kgwxd 8 hours ago
I know exactly how I'm going to version my .lor files!
ncr100 8 hours ago
Lemmie guess - not git.
totetsu 5 hours ago
I get this reference