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<li>Its parser contains support for adjectives. | <li>Its parser contains support for adjectives. | ||
<li>Objects may be any combination of supporters, containers, and "hiders" ( | <li>Objects may be any combination of supporters, containers, and "hiders" (objects that can have other objects underneath.) | ||
<li>Some global entry point routines have per object property equivalents. | <li>Some global entry point routines have per object property equivalents. | ||
<li>There is support for pathfinding between rooms on the map. | <li>There is support for pathfinding between rooms on the map. | ||
Revision as of 17:38, 8 December 2006
Platypus is an alternative to the standard Inform library, developed by Anson Turner.
The current version is 4+.
Features of Platypus, beyond those of the standard library, on which it is based:
- A finer grained system for handling actions, which includes function properties for catching actions on indirect objects in place of the "fake actions" used by standard Inform.
- Darkness is handled in a more logical fashion than in the standard Inform library; there isn't a "thedark" pseudolocation.
- It includes support for having NPCs perform actions.
- Its parser contains support for adjectives.
- Objects may be any combination of supporters, containers, and "hiders" (objects that can have other objects underneath.)
- Some global entry point routines have per object property equivalents.
- There is support for pathfinding between rooms on the map.
- The system of "gizmos" and "cogs" allows a programmer to make changes to scope or to default messages by moving cog objects into and out of the appropriate gizmo object.
See also: