I feel like I’m banging my drum too much, so I will step back from the forum for a while…
This is to articulate my current thinking. After that I will shut up for a bit.
Ponder for a moment the physical phases; solid, liquid, and gas.
Oh, and also recognise that’s an incomplete model. Glass feels like a solid but ancient church windows are witness to the fact that it flows under gravity.
What’s solid in IF is the Z-machine VM. Built from that is Inform 7. There is a community of very dedicated conservators who preserve the operation of that paradigm in the face of the 21st century forced march of tech gimmickry.
In liquid form flow Twine and Ren’Py. They are flexible; they can adapt. They twinkle. That appeals to young authors, who seek fun in offers of wordy happiness.
Billowing overhead is the type of thing I seem to be doing right now. A way of bringing stories to the web, and interactivity to a screenplay.
My thing is a gas. It’s nuts. I am not at all qualified to attempt it. But that’s how I am spending my time.
Imagine Bandersnatch on a Raspberry Pi, with the best text parser ever implemented.
I’ll be back when I have something to show you.