Technical Development

Tools For discussing IF tools such as: mapping tools, library or packaging software, disassemblers Interpreters Written a new interpreter for an IF system? Porting one to a new OS? Having trouble installing one? This is the category for you. Specifications Many IF development systems have formal specifications, which allow people to develop alternative implementations of the software. Discuss them here. Inform Extensions Discussion for Inform 7 Extensions. Development Systems Working on a new IF development system? Publishing an update to one? Got a question about hacking the code of the compiler? Here’s the place to discuss all these and more.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Technical Development category Technical Development	0	1093	February 25, 2019
Publishing your IF (updated 1/21/2014) Technical Development forum-wiki	15	17583	November 6, 2022
ZILF 1.0 released Development Systems zil	7	377	December 24, 2025
Any new-ish tools for authoring Quill games? Development Systems	36	1716	December 24, 2025
Emacs major mode for Dialog Development Systems dialog	9	183	December 24, 2025
Rez v1.8.0 — An Open-Source tool for creating choice based games/IF Development Systems rez , new-platform	24	446	December 22, 2025
ChronicleHub: a QBN engine like StoryNexus Development Systems new-platform	62	928	December 20, 2025
Bardic: a Python-first Interactive Fiction engine for complex game state with visual graph-based story editing and live passage preview Development Systems new-platform	33	702	December 19, 2025
Updates on Vezza and MxZVM - z80 z-machine/inform Interpreters	1	66	December 18, 2025
Chatscript concept maps Technical Development chatscript	0	63	December 15, 2025
QTads/Hugor Accessibility Bug Reports Interpreters	2	92	December 14, 2025
zorkie - zil/zilf to .z compiler v1-8 Development Systems zil , ai , new-platform	21	368	December 14, 2025
The early stages of working on building a ScreenFree Interactive Fiction Platform Development Systems ai , new-platform	10	338	December 12, 2025
Things people want to know about your new system Development Systems	10	455	December 12, 2025
Glazer 1.2.0 released Tools glulx	0	104	December 11, 2025
Z-machine - maps, inventory, and miscellaneous Tools z-machine	32	546	December 11, 2025
Introduction and PlayNook AudioGames description Development Systems gamebook , cyoa , sound , new-platform	7	127	December 11, 2025
Atrament, an interactive fiction engine powered by Ink Development Systems choice-based , ink , new-platform	11	287	December 10, 2025
Booktasy: Development Systems ai , new-platform	20	286	December 9, 2025
Accessing adjective words as strings Inform Extensions	3	75	December 7, 2025
z2js - compile .z to .js for web or nodejs needs testers Development Systems ai , new-platform	10	200	December 7, 2025
Glazer - yet another Glulx assembler Tools glulx , vertigo	8	263	December 5, 2025
A-Code Compiler, Level 9 Archive, Specs, game sources: made public! Specifications	13	424	December 4, 2025
AdventureWriter games for Atari 8-bit computers Development Systems	3	117	December 3, 2025
How did A-Code text compression work? Technical Development	10	238	December 2, 2025
Specification of Level 9 A-Code Specifications	109	5503	December 2, 2025
Level 9 Computing? Specifications	9	1083	December 2, 2025
List new Development Systems here! Development Systems forum-wiki , new-platform I’ve made this post a wiki, so if you are announcing a new development system and have access, edit this post and add a link to the initial post here. You can also apply the new-platform tag to your announcement post. C…	4	174	December 2, 2025
Announcing Storyfall - a new IF authoring tool and publishing platform! Development Systems publishing , editor , ai , new-platform	94	1428	December 2, 2025
Parchment sitegen output does not run story? Interpreters parchment , sitegen	8	121	November 30, 2025