by Roody_Yogurt » Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:42 am
Yeah, I don't entirely understand it, either, and it's a big mess. As of now, I'm using the TADS-site IFID generator. I do this because:
- I mean, even TADS doesn't support blorb (and probably never will). I think Kent said something to me to the effect that supporting blorb would break all of Hugo's multimedia support (this conversation was a long time ago so he might have said something else. I just remember it not being hopeful). I mean, now ADRIFT has jumped on the blorb wagon, and now if I have ADRIFT installed on my computer, it fights over my blorb files. Yeah, we need
more of that...
- As someone who always wants to sneak updates into old stupid games I have written, I already kind of hate the serial number system that tips off the player as to when the game was compiled last. The "legacy" IFID system just pisses me off in that respect
again.
Anyhow, I know the guy who created the Babel system. I don't think he's given IF much of a thought since doing it six years ago. I don't believe we are going to see any updates to the standard that'd result in not-Inform systems like TADS and Hugo to
really jump on board, and we have a bunch of people just pretending otherwise.
I still don't get why every release of my game should need a new IFID. I think that guy was only saying so since Inform games automatically have a new IFID each compile, so again, it's a case of "make everybody else like Inform."
Still, IFIDs make guys like David Welbourn (biggest contibutor to
http://www.ifwiki.org) happy, so even though it's kind of useless, I'll add it for them.
Yeah, I don't entirely understand it, either, and it's a big mess. As of now, I'm using the TADS-site IFID generator. I do this because:
- I mean, even TADS doesn't support blorb (and probably never will). I think Kent said something to me to the effect that supporting blorb would break all of Hugo's multimedia support (this conversation was a long time ago so he might have said something else. I just remember it not being hopeful). I mean, now ADRIFT has jumped on the blorb wagon, and now if I have ADRIFT installed on my computer, it fights over my blorb files. Yeah, we need [i]more[/i] of that...
- As someone who always wants to sneak updates into old stupid games I have written, I already kind of hate the serial number system that tips off the player as to when the game was compiled last. The "legacy" IFID system just pisses me off in that respect [i]again[/i].
Anyhow, I know the guy who created the Babel system. I don't think he's given IF much of a thought since doing it six years ago. I don't believe we are going to see any updates to the standard that'd result in not-Inform systems like TADS and Hugo to [i]really jump on board[/i], and we have a bunch of people just pretending otherwise.
I still don't get why every release of my game should need a new IFID. I think that guy was only saying so since Inform games automatically have a new IFID each compile, so again, it's a case of "make everybody else like Inform."
Still, IFIDs make guys like David Welbourn (biggest contibutor to http://www.ifwiki.org) happy, so even though it's kind of useless, I'll add it for them.