The Sharpee Blog

It's been 9 months since I was in the midst of porting Dungeon (aka mainframe Zork) to Sharpee as a dogfooding process.

Apparently, not the Author.

Three things shipped together this week: Sharpee 5.3.0 on npm, Chord 3.6.0 (the story language), and Chord Writer 1.4.0 (the Mac app you write in).

Admittedly, both Sharpee and Chord are still very young and cranky.

Based on the requirements of two of my WIPs, I needed robust character and conversation systems.

The Go-Live process took a few days, but we got there.

It has been exactly 27 days since I began designing and building the Chord language.

A follow-up to the previous post about seeding and RNG madness.

So you want to build a game building platform.

The whole concept of versioning software that is built using GenAI is that things change fast and in large ways.

Over the last two weeks I have aligned Sharpee with a new parser-IF modeling language called Chord.

After the first pass at designing Chord, I followed the same step as I did with Sharpee.

Now that version 2.2 of Sharpee is shipped with the website and developer manual updated, I took a swing at developing a more author friendly syntax that compiles to Sharpee.

Phrase Algebra Fully Implemented Sharpee 2.x replaces the entire text-rendering system.

There is still one glaring weakness in Sharpee directly related to separating logic from text emission.

If you hate GenAI, you probably want to skip this episode, though I would assume anyone reading my blog should already know what I do.