{"id":420,"date":"2007-11-11T08:51:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T15:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=420"},"modified":"2007-11-11T08:51:02","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T15:51:02","slug":"software-tools-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2007\/11\/software-tools-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"SOFTWARE &#038; TOOLS: Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">A<\/span>fter playing a bit in the various software programs that are geared towards story in games, hypertext, animation, if, etc., I &#8216;m getting the feeling that I really like playing in words. That is, I like typing them.<\/p>\n<p>When working in <em>Storytron<\/em> or <em>Alice<\/em>, even though I understood the mechanics and understood them to be a simplified and organized method of creating via extremely complicated written programming, the methods didn&#8217;t particularly appeal to me.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, I think that even with the format of simplification for the writer, I would much prefer to be able to type in &quot;Alice takes three steps forward and turns to face the White Rabbit.&quot;&nbsp; This action is clearly a direction possible in <em>Alice<\/em>, but the method of achieving it, even though meant to be simpler, seems to me to be more complicated.&nbsp; Or maybe, as a writer, it just doesn&#8217;t hold the same glow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">A<\/span>fter playing a bit in the various software programs that are geared towards story in games, hypertext, animation, if, etc., I &#8216;m getting the feeling that I really like playing in words. That is, I like typing them. When working in Storytron or Alice, even though I understood the mechanics and understood them to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}