Crazy question about technology & crafting fiction

[SebastianHolt]

Twine might be worth a look. I haven't used it myself but it seems to be popular for interactive fiction.

was there an open source version for the game engine for Doom? Think the company name was ID-Systems?

 

[TheLobster]

Most languages have this problem, FWIW. You have to learn the package manager and all the tooling as well as the language.

Well, to be fair, Python is almost famously terrible in this regard. They’ve been trying to solve this stuff multiple times, and the many times the wheel was reinvented — including once when it got literally called wheels — have mostly just made the issue worse.

It’s basically the epitome of that “there are 15 competing standards” xkcd strip.

 

[SebastianHolt]

@TheLobster agreed!!! That's why I wanted to make that caveat.

With Python, one does not simply walk into Mordor, one must also pip install the one ring from a broken github repo maintained by a 500 year old hobbit.

If I went for something cheesy... like spinning the classic game of concentration. Under each tile was a body part of a woman (so of course this would require many women of literotica to submit pictures to improve the quality of the game). Can these versions of SQL handle JPG (I know of three workarounds if they can't)?

think I would call this game - if there's a will, there is a boob (game name needs help)

 

[SebastianHolt]

You may very well be able to find something similar to what you're looking for ( perhaps even free ) if you search for tabletop RPG tools. There are tools designed to keep track of characters, plot points, location descriptions, various items, etc.

I haven't touched Visual Basic since the very early 2000s. I started on TRSDOS Basic back in the day. LOL ( My school was confined to cheap 2nd or 3rd tier outdated options and one lonely Mac due to budget constraints. I'm not quite that old. )

so you had a TRASH-80 computer?

 

[SebastianHolt]

No one owns MySQL. It's Free Software (or rather, you can use a Free version of it). I'm not saying you should use it, just that you won't be charged for using it.

https://downloads.mysql.com/docs/licenses/mysqld-8.0-gpl-en.pdf

--Rocco

Back in the day ... I remember shoving a small data file of about 1.1 TB into MYSQL (the version before being snapped up by Oracle) and then creating the various indexes needed.