I’ve got a small (steadily growing) group of crazies on Facebook who are learning and writing in native ZIL code and compiling with Jesse McGrew’s ZILF system. So it’s pure code, no GUI or management system, but it’s proving to be a lot of fun.
The idea came up that if we could get enough interest and participation then we could run a ZILF Comp; the game itself can be whatever you want it to be but the requirement is that it’s written in ZIL and compiled with ZILF.
Cash prize at the end - I just need to do my homework and understand what the going rate is for winning a comp like this.
Ah, ZILF. Now there’s an interesting development language I haven’t tried yet. Is there any documentation for the system, aside from the html files listing the command line syntax for ZILF and ZAPF? I was unable to find any on Jesse McGrew’s BitBucket page. If nothing else, this will give me a reason to create a facebook account and learn the language.
Not really, unfortunately, which is the main reason I haven’t done anything serious with the language. There’s Infocom’s old documentation but it’s incomplete, and there’s documentation on MDL (the language ZIL was based on), but that’s about it.