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I wonder if we can have a third pinned thread with other, lesser-known development systems? I'm thinking specifically of adventurecow (which is twine-based) and ramus. I'm sure there are relatively unknown dev systems, too.


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Not a bad idea; why not start a list with links in the OP?

Ok. Since it's not time critical, I'll put together a reasonable first post. -- Besides ChoiceScript, Ren'Py and the two already mentioned, what others should be included?


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Why would a pinned thread be useful? Isn't this whole sub-forum about other development systems? Or do you mean one pinned thread for EACH system? That would make more sense, I think, than one pinned thread for ALL other systems ... but again, what would be the real advantage? If someone wants to ask a question about some aspect of Ren'Py, why should they be expected to dump it into a single pinned thread with all of the other Ren'Py questions?

Or am I just misunderstanding what you have in mind???

If someone is looking around for systems to try, they can just look at one post rather than searching the whole sub-forum, forum, or Google.

Yeah, we're just talking about a Yellow Pages thread, Jim.

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It's not hard to search the entire Other Development Systems sub-forum for keywords. The search engine in the forum is set up to do precisely that.

Let's suppose someone wants to search for info on ChoiceScript, for instance. And let's suppose there is discussion in this sub-forum of a DOZEN different topics having to do with the details of ChoiceScript authoring. Why would it be an advantage to have those dozen topics all mushed together in one long thread, rather than having them neatly divided into individual threads by topic?

But this entire sub-forum IS the Yellow Pages for the systems you're talking about. I still don't understand exactly what you have in mind, or what advantage you're alleging it would have. Sorry.

Say a person, like me, wants to experiment with various dev systems and desires to know what, besides the populars, are available. Is there something set up for that?

If, for example, ChoiceScript was a good solution for the kind of game I wanted to write, but I didn't know it existed.

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Pinned topics have quite a tradition in forums. They help newcomers who aren't sure what is what yet.