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SGS-A
SGS-A Player Interface As with all SGS versions, SGS-A is written with two key features in mind: It should run using the Shortcuts app and built-in integrations only. It should be entirely playable from the Shortcuts widget. Using iOS 13 or earlier, this means that no graphics can be shown to the player, and the only way to interact is to select an option from a pre-determined list. (Future versions of SGS will take advantage of iOS 14's changes.) So, SGS-A serves as a game engine that creates a text adventure game out of a plain text file written by the game developer. SGS-A takes advantage of Shortcuts' integration with dictionaries to store information and present the game to the player. A dictionary is a particular formatting of plain text which allows the computer to to match up a list of player-presentable options ("Go North") with computer-readable results ("You Walk North~~N!~Stone Ring"). The most useful part is that the value of any given option c
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