Windows-Inform7
Front-end for the Windows version of Inform 7. (by DavidKinder)
inform
The core software distribution for the Inform 7 programming language. (by ganelson)
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Windows-Inform7
Posts with mentions or reviews of Windows-Inform7.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-28.
- Inform 7 v10.1.0 is now open-source
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Input prompt
Anyways, back to your original question, by "use user prompts" do you mean having the player typing in "use silver key on old door" and the like? If so, Twine isn't really designed for that. You could do it in Twine, but you'd be better off using something like Inform 7 (Wikipedia), which is actually built to create games like that. However, I should note that Inform 7 is not well supported, at least not currently, with the last release of the engine being from late 2015. If you do decide to develop with it, I'd recommend using an Inform 7 IDE (Windows, MacOS, Gnome) to help you write your code.
inform
Posts with mentions or reviews of inform.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-31.
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What engine do you use for making true IF games?
Inform 7 is the most popular IF engine. The best place to download it in 2023 is from GitHub: https://github.com/ganelson/inform/releases
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Open source Inform available for multiple platforms
Releases can currently be found via this link: https://github.com/ganelson/inform/releases
- I am writing an interactive fiction builder in C#. I decided to put it to the test by recreating Zork 1
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Six programming languages I’d like to see
Did you know Inform is now (finally) open source?! https://github.com/ganelson/inform
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Gaiman: Programming language for text-based games in browser
Inform 6 is still being developed, and Inform 7 went open source earlier this year: https://github.com/ganelson/inform
- Donald Knuth Was Framed
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Is there a way to package an interpreter with a story?
Here's the github repo, it was just open sourced last week. You can compile it from source now, and I imagine the UI frontends will be updated in a couple of weeks. IIRC, compiling directly to other languages is now possible, although I'm not sure how much that impacts your use case.
- First python text-based adventure
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Inform 7 now open source
For those who don't know it, Inform 7 is the venerable "design system" for interactive fiction. It has been freely available for some time with the promise of a release as open source for some time now. Looks like that has happened.
- Inform 7 is now open source
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Windows-Inform7 and inform you can also consider the following projects:
inform7-ide - A design system for interactive fiction based on natural language.
gruescript - Point-and-click text adventure maker
zork1 - Zork I (Microcomputer Version) by Infocom
parchment - The Interactive Fiction web app
power-fx-host-samples - Samples for hosting Power Fx engine.
Inform - Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language
Lazy - Lazily evaluated (late-binding) definition for Dyalog APL
halo - An experimental graph-based meta programming language
fuzion - The Fuzion Language Implementation
scenebuilder - Scene Builder is a visual, drag 'n' drop, layout tool for designing JavaFX application user interfaces.