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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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inform7-ide
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The Futures of Inform
For those looking for Linux packages instead of compiling themselves, there's a github build project of an earlier version this year https://github.com/ptomato/inform7-ide/actions/runs/19915523...
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Share a niche programming language you have tinkered with before
Inform 7 is a domain-specific language for creating parser-based works of interactive fiction (i.e. old-school "text adventure games"). It does the heavy lifting of parsing and maintaining the consistency of the world model for the programmer.
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How does programming language syntax affect screen readers?
Inform 7 takes this to the extreme, allowing code such as "A distance is a kind of value. 5 miles specifies a distance."
- Ask HN: Best language/framework to develop web-based text games today?
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Does anyone have examples of "dead" game genres?
Pure parser-based games have become niche, but they are still out there and, like others mentioned, have continued to evolve (see Inform 7). You no longer have to "guess the verb".
- What Languages to Learn for Interactive Fiction Right Now?
- Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity
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Gaiman: Programming language for text-based games in browser
Neat. Have you ever seen Inform? http://inform7.com/ Might offer some inspiration on future features. It's a pretty cool language that's been around for a long time and has the same use case.
- How is the method for wirting for a text advnture?, i like writting a story and then writting the variables, how can i write whit score in mind?
- Inform 7 v10.1.0 is now open-source
scratch-www
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Ask HN: Modern Day Equivalent to HyperCard?
LiveCode is about the closest literal logical successor to HyperCard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCode?wprov=sfti1
That said, I think Scratch is a better learning environment these days and you can develop workable apps in the style of HyperCard. There are plenty of tutorials, documentation, and examples to work from.
https://scratch.mit.edu
- Scratch is the largest free coding community for kids
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Screen-free coding for children: the xylophone maze
and https://codecombat.com, which has been around for a while now.
I think this paradigm (navigating a character using "move" function invocations) is good but kind of exhausts its usefulness after a while. I question whether my daughter learns coding this way or just is playing a turn based top down platformer. The most code like thing is when you use 'loops' to have characters repeat sequences of moves. I think when kids grok these things these apps become just types of glofiried education flavoured video games. There are a lot of things in kodable for instance that I feel are just basic web games with coding terms slapped on it.
https://scratch.mit.edu/ is more like 'programming' imo, even at the level of the objective -- having a blank canvas to create something. It seems a little advanced for my kids right now though.
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Ask HN: Yo wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?
+1 Scratch! My son started with it, then expanded into Roblox/Lua.
Children can download other people's games and experiment there. Scratch also has pre-made art, sounds, music.
https://scratch.mit.edu/
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Ask HN: Platform for kids to learn how to code
Scratch.mit.edu is a highly-recommended place to start [1] https://scratch.mit.edu/
> Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children and a coding language with a simple visual interface that allows young people to create digital stories, games, and animations. Scratch is designed, developed, and moderated by the Scratch Foundation, a nonprofit organization. [2]
1: https://scratch.mit.edu/
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Eligiendo un computador para desarrollo
https://scratch.mit.edu/ (Scratch version 2)
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i swear to god if i keep seeing projects abt these 4 franchises every single day i'm gonna break someone's kneecaps
Someone who uses scratch.mit.edu (like me)
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How to learn coding without a degree
Now that I think of it, I did start game development on scratch before going right into java (because of minecraft).
- Copii si programarea
- Teen school project
What are some alternatives?
twinejs - Twine, a tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories
Node RED - Low-code programming for event-driven applications
ink - inkle's open source scripting language for writing interactive narrative.
GDevelop - :video_game: Open-source, cross-platform game engine designed to be used by everyone.
RenPy - The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine
blockly - The web-based visual programming editor.
quest-driven-development
Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
Skript - Skript is a Bukkit plugin which allows server admins to customize their server easily, but without the hassle of programming a plugin or asking/paying someone to program a plugin for them.
processing - Source code for the Processing Core and Development Environment (PDE)
QuestJS - A major re-write of Quest that is written in JavaScript and will run in the browser.
stencyl-engine - Create Flash, HTML5, iOS, Android, and desktop games with no code with Stencyl. This is the source to Stencyl's Haxe-based engine.