Chapter 17 Development Environments
THE FIRST TASK FOR ANY DESIGNER of an interactive storytelling technology is creating an engine capable of generating interesting, robust drama. This is only the first task, however; the designer must also make that engine accessible to the storybuilders who will use it. Accessibility is provided through a development environment, a suite of programs that storybuilders can use to create, edit, test, and tune a storyworld. This chapter explains the elements of a good development environment.
Historical Background
Once upon a time, long long ago, software was short and simple, mostly because computers were small and simple. Back in the 1940s, the earliest computers were programmed in binary machine language: ...
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