GINAS

GINAS
Authoring system
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Developer
Format
Interaction style	Parser
System
System details
Latest version	0.4 / August 1995
Status	Unmaintained
Implements
Uses
Multimedia support
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GINAS: The Generic Interactive Narrative Authoring System, by Jeff Standish. GINAS is an Object-Oriented LISP system for Interactive Fiction.

Current version: 0.4 (August 1995), beta

Games

The only known games written in GINAS are the demo games included in the source distribution:

• Example GINAS Game, February, 1995 by Jeff Standish.
• Goldskull a port by Jeff Standish of the TADS 2 demo by Mike Roberts, February, 1995.
• Adventure (STAN0350), ported to GINAS by Jeff Standish(1995), from Graham Nelson's port to Inform (1994), in turn from Dave Baggett's 1993 reconstruction for TADS of the original by Will Crowther and Don Woods (1977).

Distribution contents

The distribution contains the source to the entire authoring system, default game library, and interpreter; all available under a FreeBSD-style license. This may be a good starting point for someone seeking to create or extend an OO-LISP Authoring System.

Links

• Download ginas/ from the IF Archive Source distribution

Notes

In searching the history of GINAS, you will find that Mr. Standish has also gone by the name of 'Lee'.