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Date Posted: |
November 4th, 2000
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Last Updated: |
November 4th, 2000
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License: |
Freeware |
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Downloads: |
846 total; 1 recently |
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6,887 total |
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User Rating: |
awaiting 10 votes |
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About inform:
Inform is a system that lets you write your own text adventure games. It solves all the hard problems like parsing, and creating an object-oriented (ish) model of the world. All you have to do is focus on the story. Wanna create the next Zork?
Inform was written by Graham Nelson based on a reverse-engineering (by himself and others) of the Z-Machine. The Z-Machine was a virtual machine invented by Infocom under which all their games can run. Z-Machine interpreters (such as frotz) let you play any infocom game as long as your interpreter is reasonably modern.
Thus, any games you create with Inform for the BeOS can be run on any platform you like.
There is a large development community on the newsgroup rec.arts.int-fiction to support authors writing text adventures, and many pages (including my own) devoted to exploring the theory of what makes a great text adventure.
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