IF Responses

Datamining 1493 works of interactive fiction:

• > no-do. 26 Responses to normally-understood commands that have been deactivated en masse in the work.
• > notunderstood. 260 Responses to one-word commands that the work of IF doesn't understand.
• > pet. 21 Responses to petting creatures, especially cats and dogs.
• > plover. 35 Responses to saying yet-another common magic word in IF.
• > plugh. 92 Responses to saying the second-most common magic word in IF.
• > pray. 289 Responses to generic praying.
• > sing. 430 Responses to generic singing.
• > think. 322 Responses to generic thinking.
• > xyzzy. 727 Responses to saying the most common magic word in IF.

Other versions of these pages will be kept around until all their data has been absorbed into the new versions:

• > notunderstood (older version)
• > plugh (older version)
• > sing (older version)
• > xyzzy (older version)

About this Responser project

I don't expect to stay around forever, so I'm also publishing the raw data and program that I used to create these pages. If you wish to continue (update, modify, expand) this project or make a similar project and not want to start from scratch, please feel free to use my materials. Crediting me would be nice, please and thank you. In the meantime, I retain the right to maintain my own version of this project as long as I'm willing and able to do it.

• responses.json.txt contains the raw data in JSON format, UTF-8 encoding.
• Responser.pl is the Perl program that reads the JSON file and spits out the webpages. It also peeks at an image directory on my computer to see what cover art images are available.
• About Responser.html is my documentation page for this project.

Note that prior to the creation of the Responser program in January 2018, all the response pages were marked up manually in Notepad.

And last but not least, a HUGE thank you to all you authors of interactive fiction. You are all amazing. Thank you.

— David Welbourn