While writing my last two games, I made a template for editing default responses in an Inform 10 project. I wanted to be able to track all of my customizations centrally, and I additionally wanted a “cheat sheet” for knowing how specific parser errors might be triggered (it isn’t always clear!).
This is less like Nathanael Nerode’s “Neutral Standard Responses” than one might initially guess. My assumption is that people using this template will want to write their own messages, so everything is organized and commented with that in mind. In fact, the extension as-is does nothing (except fix one typo) when installed. I consider it a kind of worksheet.
Zed and Climbingstars made suggestions for some of the more elusive errors. I never could have figured some of these out without their help!
sample
[incomplete command with gibberish for a second noun.
"put me alskdjfh"]
The parser error internal rule response (A) is "I didn't understand that sentence.".
This is not a technical reference, though one of those would be handy! My goal in putting this together is to help beginning authors like me customize standard responses.
Right now, I am maintaining it at itch.io, but I can keep it somewhere else if that would be beneficial.
Default Reponses Template (Inform 7) by Drew Cook
Default Responses Template.i7x (53.6 KB)
I welcome comments/suggestions regarding some of these messages, which have been hard to nail down.