Inform 7
Interactive fiction is a kind of interactive text roleplaying game, something I have always found a bit fascinating. For a long time, Graham Nelson’s Inform was the state of the art for creating these things. Of course, there wasn’t a lot going on in that field since text games are kinda passe, and I myself thought that Inform was dead too. Just going its job as well as always, but the last improvement in the field.
Turns out I was wrong. Inform 7 has now been released. To write an interactive fiction game in this version you actually work with natural language in the background. You write stuff like, ‘West-wing is a room.’ and the places appear in the game.
Pretty cool. In related news Slashdot has something up about another new Interactive Fiction invention here.
