[ninetyninenine]

That’s not my proposal. The LLM doesn’t run the world. It is simply the interface. It tells you the state of the game and tries to enhance the description. The game is a separate application and the LLM is simply an agentic layer between you and the actual game.

[anthk]

Inform 6/7 users don't need that. The engine does it all, modulo the object descriptions.

[lIl-IIIl]

The engine doesn't understand natural English. It only understands the hard-coded words. The game author forgets to include some common verb or an uncommon spelling, and oops, an otherwise great puzzle is now very frustrating.

There's a reason "Guess the verb" meme exists. There's even a satire game on this concept: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=35arqepm2q92hcqu

[anthk]

The engine is the ZMachine, and depending on the target and the grammar (IF6+English, or better, i7) the 'guess the verb' issue straightly died in the 90's.

Your comment coudn't be more outdated since the Curses! release for the ZMachine in 1993.

The v5 machine release was much better than the v3 one, and the v5-V8 ones allowed semi-complex phrases with indirect object pronouns after a previous entered phrase and much more.

Go play Anchorhead and compare it to a z3 machine game from Infocom, or any game made it with Puny Inform.