{"id":8486,"date":"2024-06-19T19:27:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T19:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8486"},"modified":"2024-06-19T19:27:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T19:27:11","slug":"decker-a-hypercard-for-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8486","title":{"rendered":"Decker &#8211; A HyperCard for the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beyondloom.com\/decker\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/wings.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m at the CSDH-SCHN conference which is in Montreal. We have relocated to U de Montreal from McGill where Congress is taking place. Jason Boyd gave a paper about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.torontomu.ca\/centre-digital-humanities\/\">Centre for Digital Humanities<\/a> at TMU that he directs. He mentioned an authoring environment called <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondloom.com\/decker\/\">Decker<\/a> that recreates a deck\/card based environment similar to what HyperCard was like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decker can be used to create visual novels, interactive texts, hypertexts, educational apps, and small games. It has a programming language related to Lua. It has simple graphics tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decker looks really neat and seems to work within a browser as a HTML page. This mean that you can Save As a page and get the development environment locally. All the code and data in a page that can be forked or passed around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a lover of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HyperCard\">HyperCard<\/a> I am thrilled to see something that replicates its spirit! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at the CSDH-SCHN conference which is in Montreal. We have relocated to U de Montreal from McGill where Congress is taking place. Jason Boyd gave a paper about the Centre for Digital Humanities at TMU that he directs. He mentioned an authoring environment called Decker that recreates a deck\/card based environment similar to what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8486\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Decker &#8211; A HyperCard for the Web<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,8,80,5,25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-computers-and-education","category-digital-and-interactive-art","category-history","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia","category-hypertext-fiction","category-multimedia-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8489,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions\/8489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}