virtuadept
2018-10-20 16:31:31 UTC
Hello, Sailor!
Long time, no read. I am a former participant of this group pre-2004 era. The last thing I remember doing was trying desperately to learn Inform 4 I think? I still have the manual around here somewhere. At the time I didn't have much to write about. But I'm older now. Wiser. A father. I have a story to tell.
The last game I started playing (and probably didn't finish) in the IF world was probably Slouching Towards Bedlam after the 2003 IFComp.
I am hoping there are still folks interested in discussion of Inform 7. I downloaded it today and was, well, lets just say "You've come a long way, baby." I checked on inform7.com and the latest news post is May 2014, so that was a little disconcerting.
I'm just wanting to socialize with people who are still using Inform 7. Or if for some reason the community has strayed from that platform, what are your own personal suggestions for a development platform for writing interactive fiction?
My current related skill set includes:
O.G. - "Original Gamester" since Zork was released on the "Trash 80". So, no, I wasn't at MIT, but I was like, 11 or something.
RPG - Not the rocket launcher or that ancient language from Big Blue, I'm talking about role-playing games, since "White Box" '77 era.
C#.NET - Actively using daily in enterprise 4+ million lines of code web application that I helped build from 0 starting 2013.
MS-SQL - Slinging queries since 1997 in Sybase and MS flavors.
"Web Stuff" - JS/Jquery/CSS/HTML - Just for debugging and minor fixes, really, not fluent enough to design this.
Maybe 20 ish other programming languages enough to read, debug, and fix it. PowerBuilder enough to design, but only version 11 or earlier, because that's the version I last used (Winforms client-server style).
English - uh, self evident? Working on Espanol, but so far no hablo muy beuno.
Avid Reader - A book a day keeps the brain fog away!
Literate - Basically, I mean, I don't write for a living, but uh, yeah.
Interpreters - I've written a few of these but it's been a long time.
Parsers - I've worked with this enough to know I don't want to build these from scratch.
I'm not trying to write a resume here, just trying to let anyone who might read this know I'm not a complete n00b. And I just noticed that every sentence in this post has "I" in it. I'm not actually as narcissistic as I probably look in this post. How are YOU doing today? :)
So please, folks, if you have any suggestions, news, advice, or can just point me in the direction of fine folks who *may* be interested in a bearded old fart who might know a thing or two about gaming and stuff, I would be grateful.
Thank you if you made it this far, you are a true saint!
-=- VirtuAdept -=-
Long time, no read. I am a former participant of this group pre-2004 era. The last thing I remember doing was trying desperately to learn Inform 4 I think? I still have the manual around here somewhere. At the time I didn't have much to write about. But I'm older now. Wiser. A father. I have a story to tell.
The last game I started playing (and probably didn't finish) in the IF world was probably Slouching Towards Bedlam after the 2003 IFComp.
I am hoping there are still folks interested in discussion of Inform 7. I downloaded it today and was, well, lets just say "You've come a long way, baby." I checked on inform7.com and the latest news post is May 2014, so that was a little disconcerting.
I'm just wanting to socialize with people who are still using Inform 7. Or if for some reason the community has strayed from that platform, what are your own personal suggestions for a development platform for writing interactive fiction?
My current related skill set includes:
O.G. - "Original Gamester" since Zork was released on the "Trash 80". So, no, I wasn't at MIT, but I was like, 11 or something.
RPG - Not the rocket launcher or that ancient language from Big Blue, I'm talking about role-playing games, since "White Box" '77 era.
C#.NET - Actively using daily in enterprise 4+ million lines of code web application that I helped build from 0 starting 2013.
MS-SQL - Slinging queries since 1997 in Sybase and MS flavors.
"Web Stuff" - JS/Jquery/CSS/HTML - Just for debugging and minor fixes, really, not fluent enough to design this.
Maybe 20 ish other programming languages enough to read, debug, and fix it. PowerBuilder enough to design, but only version 11 or earlier, because that's the version I last used (Winforms client-server style).
English - uh, self evident? Working on Espanol, but so far no hablo muy beuno.
Avid Reader - A book a day keeps the brain fog away!
Literate - Basically, I mean, I don't write for a living, but uh, yeah.
Interpreters - I've written a few of these but it's been a long time.
Parsers - I've worked with this enough to know I don't want to build these from scratch.
I'm not trying to write a resume here, just trying to let anyone who might read this know I'm not a complete n00b. And I just noticed that every sentence in this post has "I" in it. I'm not actually as narcissistic as I probably look in this post. How are YOU doing today? :)
So please, folks, if you have any suggestions, news, advice, or can just point me in the direction of fine folks who *may* be interested in a bearded old fart who might know a thing or two about gaming and stuff, I would be grateful.
Thank you if you made it this far, you are a true saint!
-=- VirtuAdept -=-