Is there away to make change the way ending screen look like.
like say if player dies
*** You fell to your death ***
*** GAME OVER ***
Thank EVERYONE, you are the best!
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Have a look at 9.4 in the documentation, âWhen play endsâ. It tells you how to change the message(s).
-Wade
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Thank you. Sorry Iâm new to this.
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We all started out new to this. 
This is a friendly crowd and we donât criticize people for asking questions. If someone says you should check out a particular bit of the docs 'cause itâll answer your question, I assure you that what they really mean is âyou should check out this particular bit of the docs 'cause itâll answer your questionâ and not âyou should already have known exactly where to go in the half a million words of documentation to find thatâ.
Informâs big and sprawling and itâs not easy to familiarize yourself with all the parts. So ask away!
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It really is not always easy to find the information in the documentation! I think itâs improved with the my update, but there are so many sections and itâs hard as a beginner to know which bits you need to read and which bits you can safely (and probably should) leave until later.
Iâve spent many an afternoon that was meant to be writing a story instead searching through the documentation for the exact example or phrase that I half remember solves whatever problem Iâm encountering. So actually a response that is âsee this chapterâ I find incredibly useful.
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If it helps, I had exactly the same experience writing my first Inform 5 game in 1995. I think I read the Inform 5 manual cover-to-cover three times in the first three days.
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You should see (and can see, if you want to search for them) all the threads Iâve made here about my struggles with Inform. Many threads, all with newbie issues. And yet not one time has anybody lost their patience with me. And every time, Iâve had solid help ASAP and fixed the problem. Youâll have the same experience. Make an effort to look in the documentation and get familiar with it, but everybodyâs right that the documentation can be a trial and is organized weirdly, so rather than spend hours chasing one thing in the byzantine halls of the docs, itâs often better to ask someone to point you in the right direction.
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And Iâve been using Inform for ages and made a bunch of extensions of my own, and I still end up asking here when I get stuck on something. Thatâs in no small part what this forumâs for!
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Yeah, Iâd add, I have developed a lot of steps I work through before consulting the forum and I donât want to do it too much. But it I donât do it at all, I realize I might not be pushing myself to learn enough new stuff! So thereâs a balance there.
Plus this isnât like, say, Python where we can just google and get a StackOverflow result with 1000 upvotes and immediately say âWhew, tons of other people had the same question I did, and I donât have to worry about something I shouldâve seen.â
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Iâm not sure which version of the documentation youâre using, but I have a strong preference for @Zed 's online version. The ability to control-F the entire doc (just click âsearchâ) is a lifesaver.
Iâve had a lot of fun learning Inform 7, and I hope you do, too.
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I keep in my machine zedâs documentation⌠(generally I kept an offline copy of the most important programming docs)
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
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