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Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7 Aaron Reed
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Tilt at Windmills: Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7, Coming August 2010 "Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7 teaches readers how to tell an interactive story with Inform. It should be shipping in about three weeks.". A short piece of writing about a favorite location in San Francisco, students honed their descriptive writing skills by creating text-based interactive fiction games using PlayFic.com and the Inform 7 programming language. I have fond memories of playing Zork (the first one) on a Kaypro machine at my grandparent's house. Concurrent constraint programming and many variants - temporal, stochastic, soft; Kaleidoscope - interesting composition of imperative + temporal constraint; Inform 7 - interactive fiction, English-like programming at its best, mix of OO and . I'm splitting this post up into three parts to make it less epic, so without further ado, part one begins… The Team. All the topics I have covered through the three videos and demonstrate how I use them. Emily Short of Galatea fame, creator of many other progressive interactive fiction works, key contributor to Inform 7 itself, and ever present on our little sidebar – please cast your eyes to the right. She maintains a blog, writes about narrative-rich games for GameSetWatch and PlayThisThing, and is part of the team behind Inform 7, a language for creating interactive fiction. Posted by amato at 5:18 AM · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook. Buying the book was always on my list of must-get IF-ery. Little Text People is being made by three notable people who haven't, to my knowledge, worked together before. Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7 - The Official Companion Site to the Book. Yesterday, 'Planet-IF' lit up with a couple of posts about the digital version of Aaron Reed's new book, Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7. Announcement: After I finish this series, I will be starting one teaching what I have learned to do in Inform 7 to make interactive fiction. Inform 7: “A Design System for Interactive Fiction Based on Natural Language”. This introductory video to Inform 7, an interactive fiction editor, is well worth watching for anyone who does automated software testing.