I've released a new version of Aiee!: An Interactive Environment Engine. Enjoy!

Aiee! is hands down the easiest way to get started writing text adventures ("interactive fiction", "Infocom games", whatever you want to call them). Aiee! uses standard, consistent XML syntax, and has a declarative style--for most tasks, you just define attributes, you don't ever have to do real programming to make a normal adventure. When you do start programming to do something unusual, you'll find Aiee! handles every task you'll need.

And now it has a pleasingly simple graphical shell, and can display images and sounds for multimedia adventures.

The other big change is the addition of actors. Actors are easy to create and to give interesting behaviors and conversations to.

I'm calling this release 0.2, but if all goes well (no bug reports) I'll be rereleasing it as 1.0 very soon. Kick the tires a bit and see if it's ready.

Edited Sun, 2005Mar13 10:01:38 PST by kamikaze