NDL Version History
Overview
Purpose: Track how NDL evolved over time from concept to implementation Status: DRAFT - Awaiting timeline extraction from Discord transcripts Time Period: June 2024 - July 2025
Placeholder Timeline
Early Conception (Jun-Jul 2024)
- Initial idea: markup language for game events
- Separation of state from narration
- First syntax experiments
Development Phase (Aug-Dec 2024)
- Construct definitions
- Grammar formalization
- Integration with ReallmCraft
- Testing across models
Refinement Phase (Jan-Jul 2025)
- Advanced prompting workflows
- Subtext and implicit dialogue
- Multi-model validation (Gemma, Llama3, Mistral, Stheno)
- Performance optimization
Expected Content
Version Milestones:
- v0.1: Initial concept and prototyping
- v0.5: Core constructs defined
- v1.0: Production testing with small models
- v1.5: Advanced features (subtext, implicit intent)
Syntax Changes:
- Construct additions
- Tag modifications
- Attribute evolution
- Deprecated features
Implementation Evolution:
- Parser improvements
- LLM integration refinements
- Performance optimizations
Related Documentation
- design-decisions - Why NDL evolved this way
- ReallmCraft-Project - Context of development
- User-veritasr - Creator’s timeline
Draft Status
This file is a stub placeholder. Run the ndl-reference-builder agent to extract version history from Discord transcripts and correlate with veritasr’s development timeline.