I got my draft #Inform7 story tested by one of my nieces, and again by my wife.
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I got my draft #Inform7 story tested by one of my nieces, and again by my wife. There's still a few details needed to make it fully playable if you don't know the exact sequence of actions, but it's getting there. The most difficult part remains making it possible to users to go wild with their commands without being too permissive, but still accepting what makes sense. Yet even just making “use key on door” work as ”unlock door with key” when it makes sense is not trivial.
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I got my draft #Inform7 story tested by one of my nieces, and again by my wife. There's still a few details needed to make it fully playable if you don't know the exact sequence of actions, but it's getting there. The most difficult part remains making it possible to users to go wild with their commands without being too permissive, but still accepting what makes sense. Yet even just making “use key on door” work as ”unlock door with key” when it makes sense is not trivial.
@oblomov There's an oft-used trick where "use" prints a generic error message like "Please type in more specific verbs; e.g., 'unlock door' instead of 'use door'." But that may not be right for your game!
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@oblomov There's an oft-used trick where "use" prints a generic error message like "Please type in more specific verbs; e.g., 'unlock door' instead of 'use door'." But that may not be right for your game!
@victorgijsbers well that would be fine for me, but then my wife would get offended, so I can't do that ;-)
So I went with “implement it and inform the user about what they should have said instead”. It was a pretty interesting learning experience too. https://intfiction.org/t/using-use-rather-proud-of-myself/78504
And now the player can use the toilet in my game!
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I got my draft #Inform7 story tested by one of my nieces, and again by my wife. There's still a few details needed to make it fully playable if you don't know the exact sequence of actions, but it's getting there. The most difficult part remains making it possible to users to go wild with their commands without being too permissive, but still accepting what makes sense. Yet even just making “use key on door” work as ”unlock door with key” when it makes sense is not trivial.
I think I should start looking into a pseudonym for if/when I'm going to publish my first stories or extensions.
I could go with Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, I guess.
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@Uilebheist @muffa @NicholasLaney @leodurruti subacquei
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@genehack @ludicity the good news is there's very little shit in Go, IMHO. It's a simple-ish language missing some fancy features, but it's not missing anything I really feel the loss of, especially for the simple problems I'm making web apps for.
Of course, as much as I like it, I'm not using it for anything other than web stuff. Even my current large-ish Go project has as much Python for the data import tools, just because it was easier to write and deploy/performance don't matter.
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@genehack @ludicity I'm willing to believe it, but I've struggled quite a bit with Rust. To be fair to Rust, I've been dealing with it in a desktop app context, and I may have made poor choices (I switched from Qt to Slint for a C++ app because I thought maybe it'd be nicer to build and package, but Slint is also a nightmare). I've never built a web app in Rust, but maybe I'll give it a go at some point. The build times are pretty gnarly though. Go builds much faster than most Node.js apps.
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@swelljoe @ludicity all that said, yes, if deployment process was a primary concern (and ...when is it not?), I would put up with a moderate to large amount of shite to get Go's deployment story.
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@swelljoe @ludicity to be fair, Rust kinda has this same deployment story. I agree it's a huge selling point, but also, if you're deploying true lambdas to AWS, you also kinda get this for any supported runtime? (N.b., not "run a container as a lambda", like ...actual old school Lambdas.)
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@ludicity it's just a bonus that it's an order of magnitude faster, has a standard library that's so good you barely need anything else (and what you do bring in from third party libs is mostly made by grownups who write clear, concise, no bullshit, code), and has a memory footprint that's dramatically smaller.
It's such a low bullshit language, I can't imagine using anything else for web services and web app backends.
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@liberotoncello premetto che pur auspicando un boicottaggio USA, io voglio mollare WA per il suo disprezzo per la privacy. Signal è americano, ma ciò non toglie che al momento sia il miglior compromesso, perchè serve a poco avere un'App super etica se poi non la usa nessuno.
Consiglio alcune letture
https://www.lealternative.net/2025/04/08/perche-usare-signal-al-posto-di-whatsapp/
https://aboutsignal.com/it/blog/critiche-di-signal-e-come-signal-risponde/
Evidenzio in foto un passaggio
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@ludicity deploying large mostly Python (but also Node.js, and others) apps in a ridiculous variety of places has been a huge part of my job for the past...well, forever, and I'm really good at it. I'm the person everyone asks for help when they can't make it work and when ChatGPT can't make it work.
All of my web projects for the past two years or so are in Go, and I'm slowly migrating old stuff to Go, too. The deployment story alone is enough to make it worth the effort.
