Inform 7 with illustrative examples of play
Build rich worlds using natural language, as easy as:
The Beautiful Breezeway is a room.
The description of the beautiful breezeway is
"This is the fanciest breezeway you've ever been in.
It's just a place to take off your boots, but the
coat hooks are made of filigreed platinum and the
shoehorns are made of solid gold, which hardly seems
practical.".
There is a shiny apple in the Beautiful Breezeway.
It is edible.Makes:
Beautiful Breezeway
This is the fanciest breezeway you've ever been in.
It's just a place to take off your boots, but the coat hooks are made of filigreed platinum and the shoehorns are made of solid gold, which hardly seems practical.There is a shiny apple here.
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eat apple
(first taking the shiny apple)
You eat the shiny apple. Not bad.
The real world is a place, and has several places inside it. You can have your imaginary world follow the time-honored tradition of making rooms people can walk in compass directions to get to.
Things fill the real world and your world should probably have them.
(About 50% done)
Let people unbend paperclips, ring bells, ride horses, and flip coins.
(About 20% done)
Heck is other people.
How to do some fancy setup to polish your world and make it unique.
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Sometimes Inform doesn't understand what you're trying to tell it to do. Here's how you can avoid or figure out some common problems.
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Don't even bother reading this until you run into a problem with naming people, places, or things.
What is Inform 7? Who are you? How do you do any of this? What are you talking about?