Any opinions of the Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7 book?

[severedhand]

Hey, I pulled it out to read before bed last night just for fun! (not having been cued by this post.) It sits on my shelf, always glowing.

-Wade

[patrick_mooney]

@severedhand

It sits on my shelf, always glowing.

And that, kids, is why you have to be careful what you frotz.

[vivdunstan]

@aaronius

I recently got the rights back from the publisher after a tediously drawn-out process, but it will take some serious work to reissue (I own the rights to the text, but not the cover art or layout, for instance). Also I’d obviously like to update it for the years of language changes since. So I can’t promise when a new edition might appear. I’d like for it to happen sometime this year but definitely can’t promise that.

I’d definitely be keen to buy an updated copy.

Thanks for the existing text!

[doomsday (Dirk Erdmann)]

Wow, that’s great news! Would love to have this excellent resource stay alive and updated!

[danieltalsky]

I am not a fan of the online documentation. Primarily, it does an extremely poor job of showing several basic examples of each command type, and also just explaining how important concepts diverge from what you’d expect in the English language. It has the cookbook but often those examples are much more complicated.

I consider the @aaronius book to be essential if you’re really going to dig in to an Inform project. I didn’t find the version problems to be a huge difficulty, when compared to Aaron’s frankly unique approach to explaining the important part of each conceptual idea and the many pitfalls beginners could waste a tremendous amount of time understanding. I had so many lightbulb moments.

Another resource that may be useful is, I had my own idea for a way to teach Inform 7 with examples I’ve put some work into. It’s VERY incomplete and really only the location and item information is nearly complete, but I think it’s worth a look over, as I think it can be very helpful for beginners.

danieltalsky/inform-7-at-play

[Spuncounterguy]

Thank you so much for this! I will start devouring it today!