put this in the wrong forum originally, but I was trying out Inform 7, but the natural writing sometimes butts heads with the programming aspects in my tiny brain.
I had started making a little database app to populate rooms, npcs and items that would put them in the proper context and link them etc, but wondering if there’s an IDE already?
The official IDE releases for Inform 10.1 are here:
Releases · ganelson/inform
There’s also a plugin for VSCode, but it takes a bit of tinkering.
I can say for me that the VSCode plugin didn’t take any tinkering at all (though I didn’t use it for compilation) (and come to think of it, that’s probably what requires the tinkering).
However, neither the native IDE nor the VSCode plugin convert elements of a database into I7 code. If you did that, that would be new, as far as I know!
It looks like the plugin has been updated since I last used it (I needed a lot of panes for PWW), so I rescind my comment! The latest update seems to have addressed the tinkering situation.
oh duh, of course the built in one. I guess i need to tinker with it more, trying to make this skeleton app has been fun tho
Not sure if I can embed stuff here, but was curious if this looks like it could be useful for anyone? You couldn’t do a whole game, or at least one that wasn’t very simple, but been useful for me getting the “bones” in. The puzzle code is way to feature creep, but I added the NPC reaction to show/tell and that’s been useful.