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Jun 6, 2015 at 19:51

Rule-Based Programming in Interactive Fiction http://t.co/y4gI5M6pRy fantastic cogent discussion of programming challenges in IF.

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...

Jul 1, 2019 at 23:11

Texture is a fun web-centric tool for creating interactive fiction webpages. Rather than accepting arbitrary sentences as inputs, you drag verbs onto nouns in the current paragraph. Here's an example: https://texturewriter.com/play/jake/predictions-for-a-strip-mall-psychic

Jan 21, 2011 at 21:29

Google translate reminds me more of science fiction than any other app I've seen this year:

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