By the Refurbished (and Slightly Radioactive) Coffee Machine

[ChristopherMerriner (Christopher)]

@rovarsson

I would probably not have the courage to go back through the entire programmed game to write descriptions afterwards.

That reminds me of the discussion about writing vs mechanics here:

Writing IF: mechanics first, writing second or both at the same time?

This may have been visited before, but if there’s one thing that this forum seems to love it’s reigniting an old discussion, so: When writing IF, do you prefer to deal with the bare mechanics first and then go back and fill in the descriptive parts later, or do the implementation and writing at the same time? I’ve tried both: the former let me get a working game up and running pretty quickly but left me with a load of writing to do at the end, which felt like a bit of a chore; the latter felt …

…anyway, after months of dithering around wondering why I’m bothering at all, I’ve finally grasped the nettle and am knuckling down to finishing a game: mechanics first, all the writing in a block afterwards. It’s the only way that I can feel I am actually making progress towards a definite end point.