Alright, getting things ready for an interactive fiction club! If folks are interested, I think we can start December off with a classic infocom game, Planetfall. I've got a discord up & running, which folks can join, here https://discord.gg/cf69sWjEE5

It's not mandatory, but if you are interested, you can also just join the discussion here on Mastadon with the hashtag #ifclub The club will rotate each month between a classic text adventure snd a more modern interactive fiction
#infocom #infocomodon

@intficpics I've just made a bot which allows multiplayer on z-machine games on mastodon (and honk).
If you follow the bot here @sandestin you will receive a welcome message.
Reply to the welcome message to play the game.
(See screenshot attached)

@nandalism @intficpics @sandestin

Can you branch off by replying for a second time to a previous response of the bot?

(I had a bot that allowed for that in the short time Wave was a thing and it IMO was much nicer than standard UNDO constructs.)

@robryk Hi! It's a nice idea but it seems technically very difficult. I'd need to keep multiple game instances running, one per conversation/thread.

In fact I'd probably have to checkpoint every action since it could later be a branch point... at any time in the future.

That's way too much complexity for me, sorry.

You can save/restore tho (see /help).

The availability of undo depends on the actual game being played. I guess some of the newer ones have the feature but zork and planetfall don't?

This is intended for group play rather than having a separate game instance for each player.
It's more intended that people gather as a group to play a single game instance together.

@nandalism Huh, so you don't checkpoint at every post? That's surprising; I would expect it to be way easier to do so (otherwise the synchronisation of the current state of the game between what's published on fedi and the internal state is much harder).

> It's more intended that people gather as a group to play a single game instance together.

+1. Are you aware of Club Floyd? (They do that over a text MUD.)

Is the source for the bot available somewhere?