NPC Engine: A Library Extension for Inform

After having ported Infocom's classic interactive fiction game Deadline to Inform, I extracted all the code in there to move the Non-Player-Characters around and created a library from it.

If you would like to have NPCs in your game that are wandering around in a more sophisticated manner than just moving them from one room to another each turn on a predefined path, and if you want the player to have the opportunity of following NPCs, this one is the right library extension for you.

From the feature list:

Complex descriptions of NPCs moving somewhere in the distance
Asking the game itself and other NPCs where an NPC is
Following NPCs you see moving in the distance
Looking through windows
Going to a room with a "GO TO" verb

Download the source code

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