http://www.metafilter.com/tags/inform Posts tagged with 'inform' at MetaFilter. Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:31:54 -0800 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:31:54 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/82235/Alabaster <a href="http://emshort.home.mindspring.com/Alabaster/index.html">Alabaster.</a> Experimental interactive fiction take on Snow White written collectively by <a href="http://emshort.wordpress.com/">Emily Short</a> and <abbr title="John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Adam Thornton, and Ziv Wities">ten others</abbr>. Features 18 endings and procedural illustrations that dynamically reflect game state. <a href="http://inform-fiction.org/I7Downloads/Examples/alabaster/Alabaster-setup.exe">[Windows]</a> <a href="http://inform-fiction.org/I7Downloads/Examples/alabaster/Alabaster.dmg.zip">[OSX]</a> <a href="http://inform-fiction.org/I7Downloads/Examples/alabaster/Alabaster.zip">[game file by itself if you alreadt have Glulx]</a> <a href="http://emshort.home.mindspring.com/Alabaster/Walkthroughs.pdf">[walkthrough pdf]</a> tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.82235 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:31:54 -0800 alabaster emilyshort fracturefairytale game glulx if inform interactivefictio snowwhite juv3nal http://www.metafilter.com/51300/Metafilter%2Dis%2Da%2Dwebsite%2DA%2Dwebsite%2Dcan%2Dbe%2Dboring%2Dor%2Dinteresting <a href="http://www.inform-fiction.org/I7/Welcome.html">Inform 7 Released.</a> Inform is a language used for creating <a href="http://www.ifarchive.org/">interactive fiction</a>, and is one of the most widely used languages for this task. After several years of effort, <a href="http://www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/">Graham Nelson</a> has <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.int-fiction/browse_thread/thread/f5919cf1b49badac/17791dfefeec46e0#17791dfefeec46e0">released </a>a new version of Inform, and is seeking to create a new way of creating IF, with natural language instead of traditional programming code. [more inside] tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.51300 Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:08:36 -0800 grahamnelson inform interactivefiction naturallanguage zcode zabuni