User talk:Amy

Authoring Tool in Java

Intro

I'm currently pursuing my childhood dream of writing my own if game. I'm also learning Java. Put them together and I find myself going about writing IF the hard way.

Thank you for this site, ifwiki.org, for all the links and resources. I'm particularly grateful for Peer Shaefer's article on developing an authoring tool,

http://www.wolldingwacht.de/if/if-auth-dev-guide.html

and for pointing the way to ifmud. I'm slow IMer as I get tongue tied quite a bit at the fingertips. Apologies ahead of time if I dissolve into a lurker.

My project materials so far:

- Core Java 2 Volume I Fundamentals ISBN 0-13-148202-5

- Complete Reference Java J2SE 5 Edition ISBN 0-07-223073-8

- Twisty Little Passages ISBN 0-262-63318-3

- JEdit 4.2 http://www.jedit.org/

- JDK 5.0 Update 4 http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

stage 0: learned Java

stage 1: built the foundation of IF object

stage 2: I can make a door open, close, lock, and unlock.

stage 3: I can make two objects interact: door opens and closes only if deadbolt is unlocked.

stage 4: currently working on making an object active or inactive during play

If anyone wants to share ideas, let me know by posting here where you prefer to discuss.