When Cross-Platform Is An Understatement: Making Weird Physical Games With TypeScript
summary
Builds a narrative engine in TypeScript that runs on phones, Macs and tiny Pis and ships to a physical installation; prototypes include a site-specific generative poetry walk using GPS and a switchboard game on 200 pounds of vintage switchboard with only three weeks with the hardware after shipping. Uses an adapter pattern to swap iPad UI, console tests and serial-connected hardware, adds a custom Ohm-backed scripting language, and finds TypeScript catches API-contract breaks that Swift interop forces to cast everything to any.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:37Overview
- 1:56Design Process
- 4:20LocationBased Storytelling
- 6:28Computational Flynn Era
- 8:50Telephone switchboard
- 12:01Playtesting
- 13:18Hardware
- 14:25Game Architecture
- 16:19Storytelling
- 17:11Interactive Fiction
- 17:42Narrative Engine
- 18:27Long Story Short
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