Just got exciting news from our NanoNote customer and supporter Nick Montfort. Yesterday he released his interactive fiction system Curveship, and today it's already running on his Ben NanoNote! :-)
http://nickm.com/post/2011/02/pocket-curveship/ Curveship is (quoting) "an interactive fiction system that provides a world model (of characters, objects, locations, and things that happen) while also modeling the narrative discourse, so that the narration and description of the simulated world can change. Curveship can tell events out of order, using flashback and other techniques, and can tell the story from the standpoint of particular characters and their perceptions and understandings." This from the man who made me think the most the last years saying something as simple as "the purpose of the phone is to interrupt you". Yes, very much so, it always was designed for that purpose, and everything that is being added lately adds to the interruption engine. Nothing wrong with being interrupted for a good reason, but I think there is room for a better phone... :-) Anyway, that's a separate project. Upon Nick's request we ported frotz to the NanoNote which is included in the 2010-12-14 OpenWrt image. We will package Curveship next. If you want to learn more about interactive fiction, the release of Curveship makes it good timing to do so now. Here are a few links: Curveship README: https://github.com/nickmontfort/curveship/blob/master/README Curveship release post: http://nickm.com/post/2011/02/curveship_released/ Curveship homepage: http://curveship.com/ Curveship sources: https://github.com/nickmontfort/curveship Nick Montfort: http://nickm.com/ Nick is also working on something he calls 'toy box for language', tailored for the NanoNote. Very much looking forward to that one day... Thanks a lot for Nick's continued support, and I hope we see more interaction fiction thanks to Curveship, and on the NanoNote. Cheers everybody, Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
