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Re:Show HN: My IFComp entry that aims to be 'Skyrim rendered... by lambda_tango on Monday October 02, 2017 @10:09AM (#15383931)
Not OP, but the system is described at [0], and apparently hasn't been released yet. Code for this particular story appears to be available at [1], although:

> This code depends on package:egamebook which is not yet open source. Until that happens, you won't be able to build this project unless you're part of the development team (reach out to filiphracek@ if you're interested).

[0] https://egamebook.com/

[1] https://github.com/filiph/edgehead

Re:Show HN: My IFComp entry that aims to be 'Skyrim rendered... by filiph on Monday October 02, 2017 @12:43PM (#15385384)
This is correct. Both these things (the game and the system) are kind of big, at least in terms of time invested, but what I released yesterday was the game. Technically, it's also the system's first major release (there was another small game 2 years ago [0]).

If anyone wants to hack on this, I'm open to giving them access to the egamebook repo, somehow (I wish there was a github per-user privacy setting...). I just don't yet have the documentation and time to make a full open-source release — not at the quality I'd expect from a project like this.

[0]: https://egamebook.com/lochness/

Re:Show HN: My IFComp entry that aims to be 'Skyrim rendered... by csydas on Monday October 02, 2017 @01:13PM (#15385734)
I appreciate your response, as well as lambda_tango's.

Not sure if it matters, but consider this my interest in this project as a user. I unfortunately am next to useless when it comes to programming, but I could easily see this being wonderful as a platform or integrated into plenty of existing platforms as a plugin. It's a very slick presentation and works well for what it's meaning to do.

Re:Show HN: My IFComp entry that aims to be 'Skyrim rendered... by tarboreus on Monday October 02, 2017 @03:21PM (#15387029)
I would also just add that opening up the code doesn't mean you have to have perfect docs in place. This is a great idea, though, and I enjoyed the game.