[image] Things people want to know about your new system Just out of curiosity, what came first @dfabulich , ChoiceScript or a great game? If it was the latter, what game was it? I’m only asking because I’m a choice-based game ignoramus. I initially ported Alter Ego from C64 to a free web versi…

I had brought this up with mathbrush on discord but this thread has led me to realise that I’m probably one of those people whose decision to use inform 7 for parser games isn’t as straightforward as my decision to use twine for choice games.

Sure, technically it’s possible that there are “approximately no” people like me, but the unstated assumption here is that I assume I’m not an extreme outlier.

You might well be right in what you say. I’m an exception too. I was just commenting on the misquotation. [image] averyhiebert: But more to the point, I was specifically disputing the claim that “no authors are

When I started developing my first project, I wasn’t modeling my work after any particular IF. I had a concept for a choice-based game (The Secrets of Sylvan Gardens) and my top priority was to find an authoring tool that would support me in telling that particular story. At that point I was much m…

Coming back to IF after a 20 year hiatus I knew I’d didn’t want to build parser games and - rightly or wrongly - Twine seemed to be the incumbent alternative. My decision to build Rez was a direct response to my frustrations with the Twine experience. I have very strong stylistic and mechanical tas…

So, my original goal was to build an RPG as someone who is, admittedly, not an ardent and devoted writer, and this was really the biggest bottleneck in my development pipeline, as someone who is much stronger with music, art and programming. I used the Fungus library in Unity, which I modified to en…

Java also has AOT (Ahead-of-Time) compilation these days. The problem with Java isn’t performance, it’s memory use, which can often be 5-10× as much as for other compiled languages. For example, a “hello world” Jakarta EE web application uses 160MiB of RAM. Everyone lost interest in applets and dow…

One of the things I knew I was going to have to implement for my WIP was a poker hand evaluator, something which is quite fast if you can use arrays with ~7500 elements. I initially looked at Inform 7, due to its popularity. But I was unable to work out how to do what I wanted to do in it, and was…

I am one of the crowd of people who is drawn to an engine because of great games made in it modulated by my capacity to master it and being able to show it to people as soon as possible. I started my journey in narration-oriented games by trying “the engine powering the monkey island series” (I had…

Hmm… it appears the answer to “how did you choose your development system” has become “using a web browser from the 90s”. Here are some things an admirable game also does for a system: A proof of concept! It’s tough for users to evaluate a system from the outside, and it’s easy to produce a syst…

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