RedGlowLots of thinking, and then the grammar for the expansion construct is so embarrassingly simple 🥹 #Suetum #versu #praxis
Since I have a little lull in the development of Selanìa, I'm advancing with #Suetum.
The system is more and more getting structured in a way that allows for parts of the project to be used independently. One can just use the fact list as a knowledge base, or just the expansion mechanism, just the instructions, or multiple parts combined into something different from Suetum (e.g.: with this architecture, one could implement a Lume-like system based on exclusion logic: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335590895_Lume_a_system_for_procedural_story_generation )
Ian Horswill is writing a book that is a very good introduction to formalisms around procedural generation.
I love how it is quite focused on text generation, but it shows how very similar techniques can be applied to e.g. generating environments.
Very well written, clear, to the point, without sacrificing precision.
I will definitely use lots of the elements laid out here to work on the expansion/interpolation mechanism in #Suetum .
Fixed also the last bug regarding axiom/rules exploration. Which allows you to drill-down in axiom expansions, and sub-axiom expansions and so on.
Now, in the space between the work on Selanìa, I can get to attack (my version of) Prolog's definite clause grammars.
It will probably be a more pragmatic approach, strongly oriented towards the narrative usages, with dedicated syntax, although it will be 100% based on exclusion logic like the rest.
Big commit on #Suetum to improve axioms (rules). Now you can write mutually recursive rules, and Habitus is also kind-of able to show them (there are still cases in which it can't expand an axiom, in case the very first rule of the axiom already fails)!
https://codeberg.org/owofgames/suetum/commit/d90f8f4d2a5fa3db54c0a8448a28724833798874
Since I'm still deep in the rewriting of the code for Selania, should I investigate deeper in definite clause grammars ( https://book.simply-logical.space/src/text/3_part_iii/7.2.html ), which brings me ideas on how to complete the parts of #Suetum that are missing?
Probably not.
AND YET.
Probably not.
AND YET.
These next few weeks I'll put on hold my work on #suetum to help with the code infrastructure of #Selania ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/3946540/Selana/ ).
I've helped a little bit too with the new version of the graphics and effects and I'm really excited to see it all get together ^_^
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