How to Program in Basic Inform

[Zed (Zed Lopez)]

@rileypb

EDIT: One thing that’s not immediately clear to me is input. Big hole there.

Oh, good point. One will want to deal with I6 for input. I did an extremely simple-minded version here:

Inform 7 Extra Lite

An advertised capability of I7 v10 was making projects with just “Basic Inform” and not the World Model/Standard Rules/Parser. I finally played with this. The secret sauce is in A Guide to Kits: you either use a -kit parameter on the command-line with inform7 or you put it in inform7-settings.txt in your project’s material folder, e.g., -kit BasicInformKit or you can use -basic in either place for short. If you’ve specified any kits by any method, you will only get the kits you ask for and th…