Glk! A Universal User Interface! for Interactive Fiction!
summary
Glk! begins in 1997 to extend the Z-machine and now powers a multi-interpreter ecosystem that actually ships ports and tools. The claim: a modest, portable UI model lets parser IF run on GUI, terminal and web. Implementation specifics: a C API that auto-generates a JavaScript API and emits a JSON data stream. Outcome: universal UI ambition fails as a single standard but yields web play, transcripts, remote viewing and regression testing; Glk 2.0 remains unpublished.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to IF
- 0:48Infocom and the Z-machine
- 1:35Early interpreter development
- 2:52Designing the GLULK library
- 5:22Text-based UI model
- 6:13Handling multimedia limits
- 6:46Web integration and JSON
- 9:44Conclusion and Q&A
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