Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7 Aaron Reed
Publisher: Course Technology PTR

It's been out for a few weeks, and I haven't seen a review beyond short "this book is awesome!" posts. It's made up of a programming language and a front-end development environment. As announced on Usenet, three pieces of interactive fiction have just been released. For those who haven't tried it out, Inform 7 is a fantastically rich environment for developing Interactive Fiction (IF). Nelson describes Inform 7 in his usual erudite style, in: Graham Nelson. I'm still a newcomer to Inform 7, the language I'm using to write a murder mystery story. This course will count toward the practicum elective narrative – the course also sets three additional goals: Preparing you to work in emerging writing environments;; Building capacity to adapt to unfamiliar and complex systems;; Exploring structures for writing that draw on positive effects of challenge and play. The programming language is based on English—if you're used to programming languages like C or Perl, be ready for a You make a rule by defining when the rule should happen (like "when a player tries to pick up the porcupine") and what should happen (the player is told "Those quills are too pointy for you to do that! I say if Jesus was born today he would make a text game. Playfic is a way to write interactive fiction and publish it entirely on the web. You make a rule by defining when the rule should happen (like "when a player tries to pick up the porcupine") and what should happen (the player is told "Those quills are too pointy for you to do that!"). Natural Language, Semantic Analysis and Interactive Fiction. Playfic uses a "natural language" programming language called Inform 7 that's easy to pick up and difficult to master. All are written in Inform 7, the soon-to-be-released IF development system from the creator of the original, widely-used Inform. I finished reading it last week. The programming language is based on English—if you're used to programming languages like C or Perl, be ready for a surprise. Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7, by Aaron Reed. Stuart Moulthrop is teaching a professional-writing course in English using game-development methods that involve an interactive fiction system (Inform 7). I7 is a complete design system for interactive fiction. Aaron Reed's book Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7 (http://inform7.textories.com/) has just been released.