inform
The core software distribution for the Inform 7 programming language. (by ganelson)
halo
An experimental graph-based meta programming language (by vinodkd)
inform | halo | |
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13 | 1 | |
1,252 | 0 | |
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9.3 | 10.0 | |
7 days ago | almost 9 years ago | |
C | JavaScript | |
Artistic License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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
halo
Posts with mentions or reviews of halo.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-13.
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Six programming languages I’d like to see
I'm a little late to the party, but humbly submit my thoughts/design from a while back for your review/feedback: https://github.com/vinodkd/halo/blob/master/doc/UserGuide.md...
What are some alternatives?
When comparing inform and halo you can also consider the following projects:
gruescript - Point-and-click text adventure maker
impulse - Impossible Dev Tools for React and Tailwind
zork1 - Zork I (Microcomputer Version) by Infocom
letlang - Functional language with a powerful type system.
power-fx-host-samples - Samples for hosting Power Fx engine.
DataLang - Specification and refernce implementation of DataLang
inform7-ide - A design system for interactive fiction based on natural language.
imba - 🐤 The friendly full-stack language
Lazy - Lazily evaluated (late-binding) definition for Dyalog APL
docs - Red-related user documentation repository
fuzion - The Fuzion Language Implementation
plasmic - Visual builder for React. Build apps, websites, and content. Integrate with your codebase.