As someone who bags on I7, I just want to clarify that it’s only because I started with that and it drove me crazy, because apparently something about my neurotype makes me struggle with writing instructions in semi-natural English.
But that’s just my personal experience, and I’m an edge case.
Every day someone puts out an I7 game, I am deeply thankful that it exists. The syntax of I7 is very friendly and intuitive for most people, and accessibility for tools of creation is absolutely crucial, especially for comparatively-small communities. As you said, quite a lot of people wouldn’t be making IF of it weren’t for I7. I would put a gold frame around that sentiment.
I am similarly thankful for TADS 3 because it provides that same feeling of accessibility, but I’m still an edge case. Maybe the tiny number of people using Adv3 or Adv3Lite has given me a bit of a complex, lol.
However, this why I don’t say “Inform 7 is awful”, but rather “I have a rough time with I7”.
Whenever anyone wants to start writing IF (especially when I was meeting people in college), I always recommend Inform 7 to them. If they have coding experience, I also recommend Adv3Lite.
Inform 7 is a treasure, though.
EDIT: I’m also very curious to see what Inform 10 is going to be like.
I’m a professional software developer who loves (mostly) Inform 7. Not so much for the natural language aspect, but for the rules. The flexibility of a well-executed activity is like magic.
I’ve never programmed TADS or Inform 6, so I can’t really say anything about them. The look of the code isn’t pretty like I7 though. All the same I plan to write something in TADS before long. Once Spring Thing is over.
We swore that if we had to spend any more time with young Jean-Luc in the cellar we would quit. Gah, season 2 was terrible.This season is back to basics: space travel with the old gang, weird nebulas, dastardly alien enemies… this episode in particular hearkened back to the goofy chemistry of TNG. Cheers all around.
I sleepily doodled the Butterfly Court TTRPG ships at the meowmewnt, subject to change. Mewstly these are my meowmeows (Andrey, Nicholas, Enoch) and Jinx’s (Taran, Esme.)
Stef Kamil Carlens and The Gates of Eden played a concert in my hometown yesterday. Bob Dylan covers.
Now anyone who follows Stef Kamil knows that this would not be a laid-back evening humming along to the Jester’s greatest hits. Stef likes to, uhm, rearrange songs. He does so with the live versions of his own work, and his interpretations of Dylan’s songs were similarly turned and twisted around.
He played maybe three or four well known Dylan songs. The rest were more obscure, “hidden in the grooves of the LPs”, as Stef Kamil put it.
An evening of musical wonderment.
(I put a song by Moondog Jr , Stef Kamil Carlens’ first band, now twentyfive years old, on @sophia 's Listening Thread)
That mushroom pasta really was as good as I hoped it might be. It certainly did remind me of just how much more butter is inside of restaurant food as compared to home, though- so the little couple of bites was certainly more than enough of it for the taste. I’m having a cranberry and lemon muffin alongside my pumpkin spice latte in anticipation of my morning class (I wake up 1.5-2 hours earlier than my commutes to get in time for a good breakfast, at least a litre of water, a cup of coffee, and to not vomit profusely from running down stairs or sidewalks immediately after, but for online classes, I just get up 1 hour beforehand to scrub up and eat/drink the water, I can sip on the coffee more slowly since I don’t have to slam it down before the streetcar comes.)
This has successfully tricked everyone I know into thinking I’m a morning person. I’m not, it’s that I’ve given myself the requisite ten to thirty minutes to work through the sheer rage and dread of waking up again and time enough to shovel something into my tummy so I’m not so hangry during my classes. I’m still kind of sleepily evil if you try to talk to me during at least the first hour of being upright. Since I know I’m kind of feral during that immediate period of being conscious, out of courtesy for other people I have to interact with later in the day, I wake up earlier so that when I do run across them, I’m not a snarling grumbling mess.
My brother has mentioned the difference is deeply startling when we see one another in the summertime, in terms of when he sees me chipper in the mornings and nursing a cup of coffee happily when he thinks I’ve ‘just gotten up’ and have in reality, been awake for hours, versus when he stumbles across me genuinely just crawled out of bed, soppy and wet and scraggly as hell because I’d dunked my face into icy cold water to try to revive myself. I barely remember those interactions, (mostly because I’m focused on scrabbling around for caffeine and food, trying not to drip too much of a water trail onto the floorboards) but he says apparently it goes something like ‘morning bro’ ‘WHAT.’ Though apparently after a moment of processing (he says he can ‘practically see the little hamster churning on the wheel’) I usually apologize and get a lot more softspoken/to my regular tone and fumble poorly through a conversation with him.
Always a happy day when I get to incorporate a fun fact about one of my hobbies into the class discussion- got to share about Fish TB when we were discussing restrictive pulmonary disorders, (as tuberculosis was listed as one of the disorders under that umbrella in humans) and how it usually manifests in the fishies (bent spine, wasting, hollowed out tummy) plus how it’s zoonotic. Our prof was surprised and delighted by the fun fact. I love sharing. :3
Do you people have any idea how hard it is to implement a three-drawer filing cabinet that has the ability to open/close/search each drawer, use each drawer as storage, use the top of the cabinet as storage, have the cabinet use a different reachability than the drawers, and also automatically and intuitively handle drawer inventory when the player just says “cabinet”??
