Technical Development

Tools For discussing IF tools such as: mapping tools, library or packaging software, disassemblers Specifications Many IF development systems have formal specifications, which allow people to develop alternative implementations of the software. Discuss them here. 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. 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. Inform Extensions Discussion for Inform 7 Extensions.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Technical Development category Technical Development	0	1090	February 25, 2019
Publishing your IF (updated 1/21/2014) Technical Development forum-wiki	15	17560	November 6, 2022
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	18	193	December 4, 2025
A-Code Compiler, Level 9 Archive, Specs, game sources: made public! Specifications	8	174	December 3, 2025
ChronicleHub: a QBN engine like StoryNexus Development Systems new-platform	22	247	December 3, 2025
AdventureWriter games for Atari 8-bit computers Development Systems	3	89	December 3, 2025
How did A-Code text compression work? Technical Development	10	218	December 2, 2025
Specification of Level 9 A-Code Specifications	109	5449	December 2, 2025
Level 9 Computing? Specifications	9	1071	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	135	December 2, 2025
Announcing Storyfall - a new IF authoring tool and publishing platform! Development Systems publishing , editor , ai , new-platform	94	1367	December 2, 2025
Rez v1.8.0 — An Open-Source tool for creating choice based games/IF Development Systems rez , new-platform	10	352	November 30, 2025
Parchment sitegen output does not run story? Interpreters parchment , sitegen	8	117	November 30, 2025
Introducing NovelCrafted - a choice-based IF platform Development Systems fiction , choice-based , announcement , new-platform	23	467	November 29, 2025
Emacs major mode for Dialog Development Systems dialog	4	88	November 29, 2025
CodeMirror support for Ink Technical Development editor , ink	7	115	November 28, 2025
Overriding Preform grammar in a language extension in Inform 10 Inform Extensions	6	140	November 27, 2025
Looking for feedback and testers for a new interactive story platform [Story Builders World] Development Systems new-platform	46	671	November 27, 2025
Testing an Å-machine interpreter Interpreters å-machine , aa-machine	3	558	November 26, 2025
New feature: online snippets Tools borogove	12	1029	November 23, 2025
Parchment Site Generator: cover art when no autoplay? Interpreters parchment , sitegen	8	89	November 23, 2025
Etherground - a modular and dynamic IF authoring tool with a unique mechanic Development Systems new-platform	27	321	November 23, 2025
NLP / PEG and other parser approaches Technical Development parser	10	1616	November 22, 2025
Overriding story headline in an extension Inform Extensions	4	66	November 20, 2025
"Dumb" Frotz too smart for me? Interpreters	4	241	November 20, 2025
Optimising RemGlk-rs Interpreters remglk-rs	19	416	November 19, 2025
iplayif.com proxy cache invalidation? Interpreters parchment	2	69	November 19, 2025
The early stages of working on building a ScreenFree Interactive Fiction Platform Development Systems ai	9	269	November 19, 2025
A modification of JDAAD to allow accessible input and output for screen reader users Interpreters	0	44	November 18, 2025
How do I build the TADS 3 interpreter on Windows 10? Interpreters tads3	18	740	November 18, 2025