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That's aesthetic compass. Wittgenstein said "Ethics and aesthetics are one and the same," but the view is not widely held.

JavaScript or Python are probably the languages of choice if the priority is choosing a technology that others want to be involved with: https://github.com/languages

A Python port of Quest's WorldModel would be a good project. I've already sort of done a JavaScript conversion - it's what the iOS/Android app conversions use. It's actually reasonably straightforward, as much of Quest's functionality is implemented in Quest scripts, so you don't need to reimplement the parser or any logic that decides which objects are visible. You just need to be able to parse XML, execute regexes, maintain a list of objects with arbitrary attributes, evaluate expressions, interpret scripts and implement various functions. Maybe I'll tackle this myself at some point - would be a good way for me to learn Python at least.

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Quest - create and play text adventure games in your browser

To be honest, and i feel embarrassingly shallow saying this, but my biggest problem with Adrift is how the games look in the runner. It's hard to describe, it feels "hokey" while z-machine games feels more "solid". I also don't like the automap feature, it takes me out of the immersion.

Adrift was my first encounter with IF and i quickly gravitated towards Inform and especially Inform 7 when it comes to development and games that comes as zblorb files etc simply because Inform looked more elegant, just the website was extremely appealing in it's elegance, design and imagery and the actual program (Inform 7) followed suit perfectly. Because of this i have probably missed a lot of great games and developing with Adrift 4 and 5 is something i have only glanced over.

Now i should say that even though i have been into IF for a long time and have known about both Inform 6, 7 and Adrift and played around with them for years i only recently got into actually writing my own stuff for real so what I'm writing here is sort of a quasi-first impression. Hope it helps though!

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~On and off IF player and Inform 7 student~

I will never ever install Mono.

Why's that then?

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ADRIFT Developer developer.

That's a surprising comment. Are we talking fonts and colours here, or text responses? And you can turn the map off.

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ADRIFT Developer developer.

Microsoft tech is generally disliked and untrusted in Linux circles. Example:

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6793/1

But you can find more opinions by googling for "linux mono controversy." I do share the belief that Mono should not be used. I don't have it installed and don't plan to. Of course I also share the belief that people are free to disagree with me and make their own decisions.

I can see there is an argument for keeping Mono and anything that needs Mono out of Linux distributions (there may be a risk that MS gets some control of Linux otherwise), but is that really a good reason for avoiding Mono entirely? If the very worst happens, and Microsoft starts invoking patents, are they really going to to go after you personally if you keep using Adrift?

That makes it easier than porting ADRIFT or Quest 4, but noticeably harder than porting Zcode or Glulx: The Inform compiler already converts most of those (regexes, objects with attributes, expressions, most of those functions) to its own VM.

Yeah i think i'm gonna have to take that part back, i have since posting that had another look at Adrift and i see that it's possible to change things to look more like what i'm used to.

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~On and off IF player and Inform 7 student~