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| inform7-ide | text-engine | |
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| 35 | 4 | |
| 97 | 287 | |
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| 7.7 | 2.5 | |
| 7 days ago | about 2 months ago | |
| C | JavaScript | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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inform7-ide
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The Futures of Inform
For those looking for Linux packages instead of compiling themselves, there's a github build project of an earlier version this year https://github.com/ptomato/inform7-ide/actions/runs/19915523...
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Share a niche programming language you have tinkered with before
Inform 7 is a domain-specific language for creating parser-based works of interactive fiction (i.e. old-school "text adventure games"). It does the heavy lifting of parsing and maintaining the consistency of the world model for the programmer.
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How does programming language syntax affect screen readers?
Inform 7 takes this to the extreme, allowing code such as "A distance is a kind of value. 5 miles specifies a distance."
- Ask HN: Best language/framework to develop web-based text games today?
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Does anyone have examples of "dead" game genres?
Pure parser-based games have become niche, but they are still out there and, like others mentioned, have continued to evolve (see Inform 7). You no longer have to "guess the verb".
- What Languages to Learn for Interactive Fiction Right Now?
- Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity
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Gaiman: Programming language for text-based games in browser
Neat. Have you ever seen Inform? http://inform7.com/ Might offer some inspiration on future features. It's a pretty cool language that's been around for a long time and has the same use case.
- How is the method for wirting for a text advnture?, i like writting a story and then writting the variables, how can i write whit score in mind?
- Inform 7 v10.1.0 is now open-source
text-engine
- Interactive Fiction Writing On Android
- Best tool to create a classic, Scott Adams-style text adventure?
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Text Adventure Authoring Tools
These are by two favorites based on category: "Old school" interactive fiction prompt: GitHub - okaybenji/text-engine: A browser-based text adventure game engine and sample game
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need some simple game ideas to get my brain going!
Here's an example of such a game engine: https://github.com/okaybenji/text-engine
What are some alternatives?
twinejs - Twine, a tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories
Commander_Wars - The aim of this project is to create an Advance Wars Clone with a lot of additions customizations and modding support. For Contact Inforamtion see the wiki page. Take a view on the game.
ink - inkle's open source scripting language for writing interactive narrative.
flowy - The minimal javascript library to create flowcharts ✨
RenPy - The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine
TPIFE - Text Parser Interactive Fiction Engine
quest-driven-development
gaiman - Gaiman: Text based game engine and programming language
Skript - Skript is a Bukkit plugin which allows server admins to customize their server easily, but without the hassle of programming a plugin or asking/paying someone to program a plugin for them.
rage1 - RAGE1: Retro Adventure Game Engine, release 1
QuestJS - A major re-write of Quest that is written in JavaScript and will run in the browser.
pangamebook - Lua-filter for Pandoc to generate gamebook by shuffling headers and changing to numbers