Here is an updated version of the zork-like game with the mostly complete authoring tool added. Click the button in the upper left to open the editing tiddler, everything I have designed so far can be done my filling in forms.
This has actually been much more useful than I expected as far as learning what the wiki can do is concerned. I think that it would be possible to make a limited version of the wiki (like the reference one I posted here http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/) that can be made and edited using only fillable forms. This would probably not be significantly easier to use than the normal wiki, but there seems to be less of a psychological barrier to filling out premade forms than using something like the editing options of the wiki. Maybe not, but it was one thing I thought of while making this. First, I can't find a way to set one field based on another just based on the first field changing. The example for the game here is location based event triggers, so when the 'location' field of an item is set to a specific value it sets the text of a different tiddler to 'active'. A similar problem is that I can't find a way to set two separate fields (same name, different tiddlers) to the same value using a single select widget. To do either of these things may require javascript, but I thought I would ask if anyone here. Second, I don't think it is possible, but I would like to have a dynamically generated macro. The reset button in the game sets a bunch of fields back to their initial value, I would like to be able to generate this macro so that it is possible to define the initial location for an item and then when the reset button is pressed it sets the 'location' field of the item to that value. If this could be done so that it iterates through all the tiddlers tagged 'item' and then sets the 'location' field equal to the 'inital_location' field without having to explicitly write out each one that would be awesome. I haven't found a way to do this yet. Third I have no idea how I would go about dynamically generating the map based on arbitrary topology. I don't think it is possible without something like the taskgraph plugin (here http://wkpr.de/hosting/tmp/tw5/taskgraph/ it looks awesome). I may look into that later. Because of these problems, and because I didn't have this in mind when I made it, the original version I posted doesn't have the same structure as the authoring tool uses. If I can find ways around the above problems I will update it at some point. There is very minimal documentation in the tiddler called Documentation, and the tiddler called Plan has what I hope to do in the future. There are also options for location based triggers that don't actually do anything because of the above problems. Hopefully I will get around to documenting what I did for this because I think that it could have application for things that are more useful than text-based games. Enjoy. http://zorklike.tiddlyspot.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
