Making App

Hello, loves! An upcoming feature demands a capability we don’t have. Let’s improve the Making App a bit. A good first step. GeePaw Hill coined the Shipping App / Making App terminology. In our context here, pace Hill, we’ll use the terms to refer to the features of the program that are part of the game, versus those that are for our use in building, testing, and debugging the program. We’re about to undertake populating the dungeon with puzzles and treasures and such. A very simple puzzle will serve as an example of why we need some additional tooling on the Maker side. Suppose some part of the dungeon is closed off by a door, so that the passage between one room and the next can only be traversed if the door is unlocked, using a key which can be found somewhere in the dungeon. We need to be sure that we place the key on the same side of the door as we place Dot, since otherwise she could never find it. To ascertain whether Dot can reach the key, we need to determine that there is a…