TEST X

Pleased to manage some more interactive fiction game coding, now developing chapter 6 of 7 in my next parser text adventure game. Not developing in sequential order! Currently flitting to and fro between coding in Inform 7 and researching a topic. While also trying to visualise the scene in my brain!

Inform 7 is a magical system to code interactive fiction games in. But it's also brilliant how you can quickly test things even just to improve writing. I've just coded another test command "test X" to jump to the latest code. I can't say what X is - spoilers. But I'm very happy typing that command!

Travelling to the USA ...

I used to think travelling to the USA would be a challenge for me finding adequate travel insurance for health cover with my 1 in a million diagnosis. Never mind my disabling disease. But now that's dwarfed by it just not being a safe place for outsiders to travel to. Detentions at US border prompt UK, Germany, and Nordic nations to revise travel advice.

Incidentally I just noticed on my desktop computer that this year's Worldcon scifi convention (I'm not a signed up member, but get emails due to last year's Glasgow Worldcon membership) emailed re travel concerns a short while ago. This year's Worldcon is in Seattle.

And yes, I know there are bigger problems within the USA for many folks living there.

But from watching outside it's horrific enough.