Comments on: Informed http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1159 Jason Scott's Weblog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:22:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Chris Orcutt http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1159/comment-page-1#comment-4422 Chris Orcutt Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:54:15 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1159#comment-4422 Jay is absolutely right. I downloaded Inform 7, and within a day, I had written 1/3 of a small text adventure. Once you get started, it's extremely addictive. Make no mistake, though, you've got to read the manual. Print the sucker out and sit down with it, though; it's too long and detailed to read on-screen. <a href="http://www.orcutt.net/" rel="nofollow">Chris Orcutt</a> Jay is absolutely right. I downloaded Inform 7, and within a day, I had written 1/3 of a small text adventure. Once you get started, it’s extremely addictive.

Make no mistake, though, you’ve got to read the manual. Print the sucker out and sit down with it, though; it’s too long and detailed to read on-screen.

Chris Orcutt

]]> By: Jon http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1159/comment-page-1#comment-4421 Jon Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:33:57 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1159#comment-4421 Also of note: <a href="http://nbhorvath.blogspot.com/2006/12/inform-7-code-poem-challenge.html" rel="nofollow">The Inform 7 Code Poem Challenge</a>. <a href="http://slesinsky.org/brian/code/i7_poetry.html" rel="nofollow">Even more.</a> [both via. <a href="http://waxy.org/links" rel="nofollow">waxy.org<a>]</a></a> Also of note: The Inform 7 Code Poem Challenge. Even more. [both via. waxy.org]

]]> By: Rob "Flack" O'Hara http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1159/comment-page-1#comment-4420 Rob "Flack" O'Hara Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:40:43 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1159#comment-4420 Another friendly alternative is <a href="http://www.ingold.fsnet.co.uk/adbook.htm" rel="nofollow">Adventure Book</a>. It's also free and, when I screwed up the adventure I was working on, the author gladly helped me troubleshoot my adventure. Again, for free. Another friendly alternative is Adventure Book. It’s also free and, when I screwed up the adventure I was working on, the author gladly helped me troubleshoot my adventure. Again, for free.

]]> By: Josh Renaud http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1159/comment-page-1#comment-4419 Josh Renaud Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:34:16 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1159#comment-4419 I was in love with text adventures, too, but didn't get around to trying my hand at writing one until high school. It was the mid-1990s, and games on graphing calculators were all the rage at my school. I wrote several text adventures in the TI-BASIC, but they were more like choose-your-own-adventure stories with multiple choice rather than a word parser. Since you could connect these calculators with a special cable, the games soon spread around the school. That was my brief moment of "programming" fame. I was in love with text adventures, too, but didn’t get around to trying my hand at writing one until high school. It was the mid-1990s, and games on graphing calculators were all the rage at my school. I wrote several text adventures in the TI-BASIC, but they were more like choose-your-own-adventure stories with multiple choice rather than a word parser. Since you could connect these calculators with a special cable, the games soon spread around the school. That was my brief moment of “programming” fame.

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