What's New: Addventure 2.0

Version 2.0.6

Bug fixes

• A showstopper that nobody semed to notice for a month. The timeout program was claiming to cleanup episode, but was not removing the notice.
• Hacks to support a new mail delivery method.

Documentation Changes

• Assorted updates to related sites.
• Changed some email addresses.

Version 2.0.5

Bug fixes

• Increased error checking to make sure that existing pages can not be overwritten. This has the unfortunate side effect that its possible to create almost the entire episode, and then get an error.
• Fixed a problem in the about program that caused the program to crash when it encountered corrupted status lines.

Documentation chages

• Updated the "magic" perl script to work with Perl 5. Still Perl 4 compatable.
• Added some more pages, etc.
• Added some FAQs

Version 2.0.4

Bug fixes

Completely invisible stuff to port the code to a new platform.

Version 2.0.3

Version 2.0.3 was released to update the documentation for our new location... but since we were updating things anyway...

Documentation Changes

• Updated my email address and URLs to point at addventure.com instead of acm.rpi.edu.
• Gave long overdue credit to the graphic designer.
• Added some FAQs.
• Added some ideas that we have been looking at recently.

Bug fixes

• An entirely undetectable problem with the "Go back" link and absolute paths was fixed.

Version 2.0.2

Bug fixes

• The problem with the about program has been fixed, hopefully preventing other problems in the future.

Documentation changes

• More new games.

Version 2.0.1

Bug fixes

Several latent problems fixed:

• Prodigy users were having problems creating new rooms because of an unexpected behaviour of the browser. Worked around this.

Documentation changes

• Added references to discussions about hyperfiction.
• Changes in other known games.

Verion 2.0.0

Backlinking

The biggest new feature has been the addition of support for linking to previously created episodes. If a episode author "enables linking" for a episode, you can point the choices either at one of these created episodes or at a episode to be created.

Reduce dead-ends

There are several changes to try and reduce the number of empty episodes and dead-ends:

• When you are told that you can create a new episode, you can immediately choose to not build it.
• At any time before you complete the episode, you can cancel the episode creation process.
• Options can be set to only point to other episodes, and not to "nowhere" or outside the game.
• There is a cleanup program that will periodically go through the episodes, cleaning up anything that has not been finished or worked on for a length of time.

Email to authors

If you would like to find out when someone extends your episode, you can have Addventure send you mail when one of these new episodes are created. (Your email address isn't put on the web page itself, just a seperate signature if you want it.)

Multiple games

For servers that wish to support more than one game, one set of binaries can now support various games. Each game can also have a title, if you wish.

Improved statistics

While it was possible to generate some statistics on episode creation with version 1.x, the game now keeps track of this data directly. While most of it is not yet used, the "about" program displays some of this information. Statistics on game access is still done by standard web statistics programs.

Under construction

You can no longer stumble into episodes as they are being created by someone else. If you're working on a episode, you're guaranteed to have it all to yourself.

New terminology

The term "room" is no longer used in all cases, since it was not (necessarily) a physical room that was being described. Each game can use their own term (this game uses episode, with "room" used as the default.

New look

There have been several changes in the look itself, to try and make the game better looking and more functional on a wider range of clients.