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May 30, 2022 at 02:24

Inform, the programming language built for writing interactive fiction (i.e. text adventure games), is now open source. The compiler and toolchain may also be the largest literate programming codebase to date!

Inform 7 v10.1.0 is now open-source

Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language, and consists of a core compiler, together with extensions, kits and other resources, a number of outlying tools, and documentation, along with applications presenting the system in a friendly way on MacOS, Windows and Linux. This software had been used extensively since 28 April 2006, but by 2016 its source code was in considerable need of modernisation. In part that was wear-and-tear, but it was also the effect of year...

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