Argax Project: Wharf

Wharf

Stage of Development: Abandoned (design partially completed)

Architecture: Eudaemon

Overview: Wharf is an occult pirate fairytale. From a number of initial starting situations, explore the dark harbor town of Wharf and its surrounding world of magic and sailing ships. Features flexible yet well-formed plots with multiple possible endings.

Wharf will likely never be implemented. It was the test case for the Eudaemon architecture, and was to be an Inform (interactive fiction) game. As Eudaemon evolved to Sandcastle, Wharf became The Tree and the Cave. Sandcastle quickly became Marlinspike, however, and this storyline was dropped in favor of a new one.

Articles/Details:

"The Limitations of a Propp-based Approach to Interactive Drama" (Tomaszewski & Binsted 2007)