Ah so the lounge is less about the crook things:tm: of the elite and more akin to the semi-inebriated after party where the food club is debating the notion of what constitutes pasta while the local linguist is writing a love letter to formulaic adaptivity.
Hence comes my
Question: what exactly -is- post mortem and how would i go about elaborating on one? Also how am i supposed to resist punning on the matter since my IF piece was rather exact on the meaning of the concept?
A.k.a Post mortem post mortem vita (this is a cry for help)
A post-mortem is basically a look back at your game from first ideas to final comp reception ā you share your journey, go over what worked and what didnāt, what you learned, what you would have done better, what you thought went well, etc. While most of them tend to be kind of serious I donāt think thereās any actual rule that they be so; therefore I give you permission to pun away!
@Encorm explained it. Often for commercial games they do live talks and answer questions. Essentially itās āwhat has been learned, what worked, what would we do differently?ā You can also consider it kind of like the DVD commentary track from a movie that explains the thought process and what went on behind the scenes.
For IF, you can write the longest essay you want talking about your game and many people love that kind of information.
/hides my postmortem being half as long as my gameā¦
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PM are so much fun! You get to do a retrospective on things and often realise stuff about what you did (like why the code was so bad or why the story ended up this way). Itās really part of the learning/creating experience!
So apparently my dad lurks this forum now and then (he doesnāt have an account), and he said that compared to what everyone else had for a post-mortem post, mine was a āpost-mortem novelā.
Thank you! What I really want to do is write about my experience with learning Inform 7. Both @AmandaB and I have publicly said that we could not have made game(s) without Inform 7. So, Iād like to encourage people like me to give it a try! Turns out, I really loved making a game. Itās a cool thing in my life that I didnāt have before.
Maybe I should just handle it as a standalone essay at Gold Machine. That way, I can let the postmortem continue to be its own thing. Iām more likely to reach people who havenāt used Inform 7 there, anyway.
To TC, you made a Vorple game, right? I think that would make for an especially valuable postmortem, since a lot of I7 authors arenāt familiar with it.
Oh, absolutely. The whole reason I never wrote a game before was not that I didnāt have ideas-- I had a million of them. Itās because I didnāt know how to do it and I was pretty sure I couldnāt do it. But Inform, for all its quirks and for all my grousing about it, is a really awesome tool for easing a person into coding. Iāve said this many times before and Iāll say it again: if I could do it, so can anybody.
Why not put at GM and tack it to the end of your existing postmortem, too?
Iāve been keeping a journal of my (hilariously misguided) attempts at figuring out Vorple. Iām hoping to ultimately use it it to put together a video series, tentatively titled āVorple for Vummies.ā
Searching YouTube, thereās a few videos expressing what Vorple can do, but nothing regarding how to use it. When the time comes, Iād love the opportunity to pass draft scripts for the videos by someone more knowledgeable. Iād hate to misinform folks (heh), even unintentionally.
