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May 18, 2006
Interactive Fiction
I really will have to delete my RSS subscription to 'the escapist' and many other blogs if I intend to get real work done...
They have just drawn my attention to the release of Inform 7 a tool for creating interactive fiction.
What's that in the who now? Interactive fiction - modern name for - text adventures.
I love them. I always wanted to write one, had visions of being up there with the likes of Zork. But my dreams lurked in a shadowy corner of my mind for too long and sadly, were eaten by a grue.
Inform 7 kinda changes things though. Its a total reinvention of the whole method of writing interactve fiction (well, so I was told by the escapist...). Natural language descriptions, high level descriptive 'programming'. Its more like describing a game to a developer who then goes and builds it for you.
I have got to get my hands on a copy.
Is it free?
OH MY GOD YES!
Goodbye sleep.
Hand me the bastard son of this and Unreal Tournament and you would make me a very happy man indeed.
Posted by dottie at May 18, 2006 11:32 PM