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Established IF system seeks new owner

sudsteam Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2002 10:05 am

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Established IF system seeks new owner

SUDS is a freeware Windows-only Interactive
Fiction (IF) authoring application. It provides a strong
IDE which offers advanced drag-and-drop programming
instead of text-based coding. It supports a growing and
enthusiastic following of game authors (rather than coders)
who use the graphical system to generate their own
text adventures. SUDS was launched a couple of years
ago and has been gaining in popularity ever since in
the tightly-contested field of IF tools. It has been
especially well received in the education sector. To
date, SUDS has been developed by myself as a spare-time
activity. It is a fairly mature product and functionally
complete. However, the user community have a number of good
ideas for how to further improve the product. I
find myself unable to juggle family and career
commitments with the leisure-time development work required
to keep SUDS moving. Therefore I am regretfully
stepping down from my involvement with the product.
However, as I do not wish the program to be abandoned, I
am looking for a responsible Delphi developer or
group of developers who can take over looking after
SUDS (free of charge). SUDS has been developed
in Delphi and uses several proprietary components,
most notably the DBISAM database format. Prospective
owners need the following : Delphi 5 or
later OO programming experience Help system authoring
experience (currently uses WinHelp format) Familiarity
with SQL and database manipulation Web-site
authoring Some cash outlay (SOLELY to purchase vendor licences
for the various proprietary components that SUDS
uses) Willingness and ability to commit effort to the product and
user community Possible future directions
include : Converting text passages into HTML, to be
able to show graphics and formatted text (a relatively
straightforward task) Adding the ability to import/export
individual SUDS elements between users Adding a
text-input parser Porting to other platforms (via Java or
Kylix) See <a href=http://www.sudslore.com
target=new>http://www.sudslore.com</a> for more details.

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