Curveship-py

Curveship-py
Authoring system
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Developer	Nick Montfort
Format
Interaction style
System
System details
Latest version	0.6.01
Status
Implements
Uses
Multimedia support
License	ISC
Notes	See also Curveship-js.
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There are two Curveship systems by Nick Montfort. For the JavaScript version, see Curveship-js.

Curveship-py is an authoring system by Nick Montfort, released in February 2011. Its distinctive feature is its unusual degree of control over the narrative text. Events in a Curveship story can be told in any order, from different characters' perspectives, in flashbacks, and so on. This extreme flexibility is made possible by firstly encapsulating all changes in the game world within actions; and secondly, by using several placeholders, or substitutions slotted within every text string, to mark all the places where the text may vary and how.

Links

• Curveship homepage.
• Posts about Curveship at Post Position (Nick Montfort's blog):
  • Introducing Curveship - Posted 28 July 2009.
  • A Lexicon of the Curveship World - Posted 4 August 2009.
  • Curveship 0.5 Released - Posted 2 February 2011.