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...

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[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...