Founder's Mercy

This is the source code for the game Founder's Mercy to be built with Inform 7 build 6M62.

Copyright © 2018 Thomas Insel tinsel@tinsel.org http://tinsel.org/IF/

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Tools

You should be able to build Founder's Mercy on any supported Inform 7 platform, but the release and testing automation is designed for macOS (tested with 10.13) and the following tools:

• Inform 7 build 6M62 -- http://inform7.com/download/
• OmniGraffle -- https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle/
• AWS Command Line Interface -- https://aws.amazon.com/cli/
• Command line developer tools -- xcode-select --install

Ubuntu Linux

• apt-get install git make gcc python
• Get I7_6M62_Linux_all.tar.gz, expand, and follow isntall instructions
• OmniGraffle build won't work, of course, but make test should be fine.

Release Instructions

Edit Makefile as necessary and...

• make release -- build release
• make test -- run tests
• make clean -- remove build artifacts
• make cleaner -- remove build artifacts and test interpreters
• make sync -- upload to AWS S3

All of this is really only necessary for automating a reasonable test suite. Otherwise shift-command-R works fine.

Extensions

The following extensions, which are not bundled with Inform 7 build 6M62, are included from https://github.com/i7/extensions/

FoundersMercy.materials/Extensions/Erik Temple/Real-Time Delays.i7x
FoundersMercy.materials/Extensions/Juhana Leinonen/Object Response Tests.i7x
FoundersMercy.materials/Extensions/Sean Turner/Plugs and Sockets.i7x

And these are local:

FoundersMercy.materials/Extensions/Thomas Insel/Machines.i7x
FoundersMercy.materials/Extensions/Thomas Insel/Simple Exit Lister.i7x
FoundersMercy.materials/Extensions/Thomas Insel/Testing Commands.i7x

Independent Study

• https://oikofuge.com/coriolis-effect-rotating-space-habitat/

• https://www.artificial-gravity.com/sw/SpinCalc/

• http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/174/old-school-copy-protection-schemes

• See https://github.com/i7/extensions, but we have copied in any extension that doesn't ship with Inform 7. Also, extensions by Thomas Insel are local.

• See https://github.com/erkyrath/quixe/wiki/Quixe-Graphics-Support for more on adding images to Quixe.

• http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=146

• http://omnigraffletips.blogspot.com/2013/05/using-applescript-to-reposition-objects.html

• https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleScriptLangGuide/conceptual/ASLR_fundamentals.html

• https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3088443 -- preview to combine PDFs