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words in trees, cats in phones, doctorate in jerks online; 🧶 Yarn Spinner, 😿 Night in the Woods, 🚀 I Feel Fine, 🎨 Leonardo, 💼 Secret Lab.
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We'll be at #NZGDC24 on Friday and Saturday this coming week! Come and say hello! Most of the Yarn Spinner team will be there!

Back of a person’s black vest with the words “Yarn Spinner” on.
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The Yarn Spinner folks have built another fantastic narrative tool. Story Solver is built to help answer the questions… • Can everything be seen? • Can everything be completed? …with Math! Because manual testing takes A. Lot. Of. Time. Your QA team will thank you.

A Producer's Delight: Formally Provable Narrative
Story Solver is a tool for narrative designers that helps you plan, write, and test your game's story. Brought to you by the same team that built the open-source narrative tools behind award-winning games like Night in the Woods, Dredge and Venba, Story Solver lets you create the branching paths of your story, and then uses automated reasoning to ensure that every part of your story is reachable by the player in some way. Using this approach, Story Solver can take any point in your story and produce a save-game file for it.

In this talk, we'll take a deep dive into how to use automated reasoning and theorem provers to create a complex, intertwined story. We'll then mathematically prove that it contains no problems. This is not hyperbole.
Jon and Tim, with a slide showing expanding brain meme:

-Test everything manually
-Identify and test specific paths
-Implement stochastic methods
-Solve for every possible universe
Solvers
LLMS
Lies to you
• NO
X YES
Needs to be spoken to like it's an idiot
V NO
X YES
Can explain its results
YES
X NO
Can exhaustively explore a domain
YES
X NO
Can write a bad poem about onions
X NO
YES
Yarn
Spinner
Story solver solving for the state “Dragon is dead” in a simple demo story
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hey now c'mon

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RYradiatoryang.bsky.social

big fan of this person just 3D modeling their meals and releasing them into public domain... fernet and coke sounds good too opengameart.org/content/chic...

screenshot of https://opengameart.org/content/chicken-breast-and-potatoes
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JWjoewintergreen.bsky.social

Heyyy a new trailer for InFlux Redux, the remake of game I shipped 11 years ago that I've been remaking for like six or seven years that's almost out like maybe in the next few weeks. Wishlist it on Steam so you get reminded to buy it when it's out!!!!! Also share! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJsQ...

InFlux Redux Trailer
InFlux Redux Trailer

YouTube video by Joe Wintergreen

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Jon Manning
@desplesda.net
words in trees, cats in phones, doctorate in jerks online; 🧶 Yarn Spinner, 😿 Night in the Woods, 🚀 I Feel Fine, 🎨 Leonardo, 💼 Secret Lab.
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