Writing interactive fiction games with Inform
First posted on 01 June 2006. Last updated on 30 June 2009.
In 1993, Graham Nelson created Inform—a set of programming language, compiler, and library for writing text based Interactive Fiction (IF) games. He posted a notice about this design system to the newsgroup rec.arts.int-fiction and soon it became the most popular language for authoring IF games. While other programming languages exist (and some that even have the advantage of supporting…
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By Jimmy the geek • On 04 April 2009
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This article goes on for great length about some source code called spacestation, do you have a link to that code?
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