NELCO this weekend

[jducoeur]

Reminder for those interested in LARP and/or Querki -- this weekend, at the Radisson Chelmsford (the usual site of Intercon), is NELCO: the New England LARP Conference. I expect it to be a lot of fun: there is going to be a full schedule of panels, a Build Your Own Game, and generally lots of folks talking about the writing and playing of LARP.

I've got several panels on Saturday, including a one-hour sneak peek at Querki at 1pm. This is going to be a high-danger event: I'm going to do a demo of building a Space on the fly, with very little pre-canned, so it's pretty certain that *something* will go wrong. But I'd love to have folks come by, ask questions, and participate in the demo. (I'll be encouraging audience members to help me design a Space for building a LARP -- with any luck, it'll be a fun exercise.)

So if you're free, come on by, at least for Saturday. It promises to be an interesting day...

Comments

[juan-gandhi.livejournal.com]

Regarding parent-child, I believe I read it here:

https://github.com/jducoeur/Querki/wiki/Database-design

Anyway, I have to try it. The hierarchy is not an issue; it is actually not a hierarchy, but compound keys that I extract from html divs, spans and tables, with values attached. My purpose is to make my code read html the way humans read it when they want to find values, like in a spreadsheet, but with more dimensions.

[jducoeur]

Okay -- yeah, that's referring to the fact that the "class" structure is single-inheritance. My current belief is that that works pretty well for Querki: I have yet to come up with a use case where I actually want multiple inheritance.

That's largely because the language is really, in most important respects, duck-typed. That is, you usually care about what Properties a Thing *has*, more than what Model it *is*, and absolutely any Thing can have any Property added to it. So where you would use multiple inheritance in a more conventionally class-based language, you instead just add Properties as needed in Querki.

(The Spaces themselves actually *are* multiple-inheritance: mixins are pretty important for the long-term plans. But that's more cognate to importing multiple packages in a Java-like language.)

Anyway, I have to try it.

Okay, cool. At the very beginning, Alpha is going to be necessarily limited to friends-and-family (for legal reasons), but once I have the company properly incorporated (hopefully pretty soon), I'll be looking for more people to kick the tires, and I'd be happy to have you come try it out then...