You may use either ‘ or ” to delimit your ABML attributes again, I think, unless I’ve missed something again. If your Turn To’s suddenly take you back to 1 again for no reason please let me know.
Combat Function was never broken New Expression Evaluation Bug Discovered
There is a bug with function parameters. Again. This time I have discovered that a calculation performed within passing to a function parameter list that is not parenthesised i.e. &myfunc(1,2,3,4+5,6); will not behave as expected. Please parenthesise your calculations within function parameters like so: &myfunc(1,2,3,(4+5),6); to see desired results.
I’m fairly sure this is to do with the precedence of the comma listbuilder operator being somehow incorrect. Please expect random crashing while I work on this bug.
Fighting Fantasy combat function temporarily broken
Also the single quote attribute delimiter capability was buggy and has been temporarily revoked. I am working on fixes asap.
ABS function implemented in SEL
The simple ABS function available in most languages is now available in SEL
ABML attributes may now be single quote enclosed
Until now ABML tags had to have their attributes enclosed in double quotes like so:
<tt ref=”123″>Turn to 123</tt>
Now you are permitted to alternatively use single quotes like so
<tt ref=’123’>Turn to 123</tt>
This may be useful for SEL script writers who wish to use double quotes inside their tags instead of being forced into single quote useage only (yes I am looking at making variables intrerpolate inside double quoted strings one day, all being well, this is a step toward that).
HTML style comments now Working
Nothing else to add to this
Double Bracket Bug Fixed (apparently)
Since the inception of this project I have had a lurking bug in my code that I have had no idea how to fix and didn’t even know it existed until 10 years ago. I am pleased to report it is now fixed, however there MAY be side effects I am unaware of. If your adventure suddenly is misbehaving unlike before please let me know what the errors are. 🙂
Exponentiation Operator in SEL fixed
Exponentiation Operator in SEL fixed. I simply forgot some simple copy/paste code in the core for that one, sorry about that. On the plus side I have now tested my associativity fix that was in place since year dot for correct associativity evaluation and am now satisfied it has been working all this time correctly as expected.
Significant Appearance Changes – please use CTRL+F5 in your Browser to see them.
The Play area and the WordPress Front End have had significant changes (WordPress now fills entire 1920px screen, the Play area is now… different 🙂 ) Normal Refreshing may not work, you will have to use CTRL+F5 to flush the CSS cache on most browsers. Mobile/Tablet users – sorry I have no idea how to help you flush your CSS cache.
Gamebooks Internationale
Hello, Bonjour, Hola, Olá, Здравейте, and indeed 你好 🙂
Many will be surprised to learn that gamebooks have a big following outside of the english language. Strangely enough it is not only England and the United States that thought of Interactive Fiction!
Indeed the first I heard of this was with the French website http://www.legrimoire.net/ which contacted me quite some time ago. Shortly after I noticed that https://www.projectaon.org/ has as it’s first page langauge selection between English, Spanish and Italian (in fact I may have noticed this before even the French contacted me, it was along time ago!), so obviously something bigger thanI imagined was already afoot when I started this project.
Since then, especially with the advent of Facebook etc. it has become quite obvious that there are many many fans of Fighting Fantasy and gamebooks generally from all over the world and not just English primary speaking nations. Oscar here at https://fanbooks.fightingfantasy.net is actually based in Portugal, also on our Discord channel is Вилорп and friends from Bulgaria (he is our moderator so be good!) who will probably direct you to http://www.legacyofkreya.com/en/news to start with. Also I have just had word from our man in Ohio in U.S. and A. Guillermo about this YouTube channel and review of Gavin Mitchells Spanish publication of Outsider and fightingfantasy.net Las mejores webs de librojuegos (which is based from the site https://librojuegos.org/) which has some lovely things to say about us here :-)- at least that’s what I am told – my Spanish is no good at all 🙁
Since WordPress does have the capacity to be a multi-site CMS in theory I could make this place multi-lingual. If you are a serious developer interested in helping me do this and have another language in your personal knowledgebase please contact me. Or, if you are interested in your own port of the current gamebook engine to develop your own international site please feel free to enquire. I do not charge, all I ask is patience (a LOT of patience) and creditation.
Lastly if you have an international gamebook site and would like a link sometime (and I mean I may forget to make it for a long time) please feel free to drop me a link to your site any way you can get hold of me 🙂