heard about the inform programming language, it seems very cool but
would i be giving up much functionality if i wrote stories in inform 6 instead of 7? its syntax looks a lot more approachable, i like to have a mental model of how the parser wants me to write things and i'm having trouble wrapping my head around the almost-english-but-not syntax that inform 7 has
#interactivefiction
@w omg! Welcome to the ranks. Arguably you'll gain some functionality, but lose modern libraries if you use #Inform6. For example, implementing a turing machine in #inform6 is way easier than in #inform7. (I had this challenge with my friend almost a decade ago lol).
What I find crazy is how the top three tweets that got synced to my instance of yours are:
- Privacy
- Inform
- Nix
How are humans so similar lol.
@w here's a small game I wrote as part of a birthday present for my ex: https://github.com/cognivore/107.inform/blob/main/Source/story.ni
I loved working on it, felt so decadent and weird! But also, not that I use some libraries by Emily Short and others.
BTW! Did you play Counterfeit Monkey? It's so good.