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Jan. 21st, 2023 10:50 pmTai chi and the writer's group were both wonderful, as usual. I'm thinking about my Prometheus story. The setting is really hard for me. I mean, where exactly are they standing when they are making the creatures of the Earth? I assume it is Greece, but I find it hard to imagine the setting. Likewise, are there only like 12 people in the world? Again, it seems a bit weird, not to mention empty. I'll talk to Joel about this and see what he thinks. I mean, it works perfectly fine if it is about a group of scientists uplifting some creatures. There is a big fight before the uplift work starts with the people who originally started the lab and the new group, who they were abusing. However, even after the abusers are exiled from the lab, the new head of the lab is an absolute asshole, who sexually harasses everyone and wants to lord his position over everyone, especially the newly uplifted people. Our hero is really against all of this crap behavior and fights against it with the help of some of the other scientists.... Geez, Greek mythology is really depressing. I may need to either tone Zeus down a lot or change stories. Clearly, I need to talk to Joel about it.
However, after a lot of frustration, I have found the reference material for the markup language that Twine (the program that formats the interactive fiction as interactive fiction) uses by default. While it is all there, this isn't just like being able to look it up with a search engine, like I can with PHP. Happily, though, the reference material seems pretty complete, and there are a lot more macros to do functions that I want a programming language to do (like make the first letter of a string upper case). So, now I have the code for most of what I want from Twine. I think this will be enough so that I can get started, which means that I need to decide if Prometheus stealing fire is just too depressing for me. I suppose I could write it as a short story, just to be a proof of concept. I'll think about that. It would work much better than something long and involved with a lot of relationships. Hmm....
However, after a lot of frustration, I have found the reference material for the markup language that Twine (the program that formats the interactive fiction as interactive fiction) uses by default. While it is all there, this isn't just like being able to look it up with a search engine, like I can with PHP. Happily, though, the reference material seems pretty complete, and there are a lot more macros to do functions that I want a programming language to do (like make the first letter of a string upper case). So, now I have the code for most of what I want from Twine. I think this will be enough so that I can get started, which means that I need to decide if Prometheus stealing fire is just too depressing for me. I suppose I could write it as a short story, just to be a proof of concept. I'll think about that. It would work much better than something long and involved with a lot of relationships. Hmm....
