You See Chaos Here.

Submitted by: Andrew Plotkin Score: 7.43 (out of 10)
Length: 137 characters
Computer Language: Inform 7, Inform 6
Interface Language: English
Description

It wouldn't be a Zarf competition entry without a surrealist descent into madness!

What's going on? What is the goal? Is there *really* chaos here, or am I just deconstructing the conventions of IF to mess with your head?

Instructions

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Download: You See Chaos Here

Source Code:

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"You See Chaos Here." by Zarf

Madness is room

Chaos is in it

Before doing anything: x

To x:
    (- action = ActionData-->(1+11*random(64)); if (~~noun) noun = player; -)

IF
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Mon, 04/26/2010 - 21:30 — Anonymous

Bug Report

WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS

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I came across the following unexpected behavior while playing this otherwise wonderful game. The three characters remaining to you should be more than sufficient to correct this unfortunate flaw:

>yes
Variable unavailable: 20009/0
Variable unavailable: 20009/0
Variable unavailable: 20009/0
Variable unavailable: 20009/0
You get out of nothing.

Darkness
It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing.

It is now pitch dark in here!

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And my favorite excerpt:

>kill chaos
The dreadful truth is, this is not a dream.

Tue, 04/27/2010 - 01:57 — Anonymous

bug

I got that bug on one play, but not since. But that might be because I got a different set of random actions.

It sort of looks like a Parchment thing to me, but I could also be completely wrong. Probably worth someone testing it with a fixed seed.

--Matt Weiner

Fri, 04/30/2010 - 16:21 — Anonymous

It's not a Parchment bug,

It's not a Parchment bug, it's a game bug. I'm rewhacking Inform's internal parser variables with no safeguards.

I think the problem occurs when the "go" action comes up -- my code tries to treat the player object as a direction, and boom.

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