Everyone except new users is able to edit wiki posts – people should feel free to fix any broken links.
I would consider it a kindness, though, if anyone talked with me about their plans before just deleting or reorganizing stuff.
Like it says up top, I expect to do a major revision some time soon, but I’m waiting for the new IDEs and the new docs and change log and Inform 7 website to be released, which I’m presuming will all happen at the same time when they happen. And that’ll be a sufficiently large endeavor that it probably won’t happen quite as quickly as anyone would like.
Some time soon, I hope, I’ll be working on a v10 version of documentation and resources. I figure it’s worthwhile for there to still be 9.3/6M62-flavored info and there’s not room for 9.3 and 10.1 in the same entry: the initial post here has been dancing around the 32,000 character limit for a while – I’ve had to economize character count several times.
My inclination is to rename this thread Inform 7 9.3/6M62 Documentation and Resources and leave it principally as is, and to create a new Inform 7 v10 Documentation and Resources thread. Each will prominently identify itself and link to the other at their tops. And I presume some years hence the 9.3/6M62 thread would get unstickied.
Anyone have any strong opinions about some different approach being a better idea?
Just to follow up on my comment directly above, there’s a page for Inform 7 on IFWiki already, but it could do with being updated.
If you were to work on your new revision on IFWiki, it could be on the Inform 7 page itself (replacing much of the existing content there) or on a separate page. It would be in keeping with the “wiki” nature of the original post here, and would help to reinvigorate IFWiki too!
It is short and sweet and may be a good place to start before diving into the other tutorials posted by Allison Parrish and Carolyn VanEseltine.
I started it in November, then switched gears to return to (and finally finish) Reed’s Creating Interactive Fiction in Inform 7. I plan to review the other tutorials when I’ve finished the book. I’m nearly there.
This would affect users of this post in general, so I thought I’d bring it up publicly: I pitched to Graham the notion of my moving much of the I7 Docs and Resources info to pages on the official Inform website itself, and he has assented in principle. My thoughts are:
I’m guessing many people check out Inform without ever finding their way to IntFiction. Newcomers have a better chance of finding the info if it’s there.
I can organize things better with multiple pages than with one enormous forum post.
The Docs and Resources post here can link to pages there, so there should be no real loss for people here.
Numerous people here have commented on bouncing off the current post because it’s such a massive wall of text… and they have a point. This post could become less of a survey of the entire Inform-o-sphere and more of a FAQ.
For a long time now, I’ve been up against Discourse’s 32000 character limit, and have had to concentrate on making things even terser in order to add more content.
It would obviate my previous notion of having separate 9.3/6M62 and 10.1 posts, and it’d be a feature for the link to this thread to stay constant 'cause lots of things on the forum (and some things elsewhere) link to it.
To be clear, I fully intend that the top post in this thread continues to be a living document that serves as a guide to I7 docs and resources! But some sections here will become links to pages on the Inform website, pages that won’t have to be as terse and compact as the corresponding sections here.
I tried to add Ryan Veeder’s audiobook version of the first chapters of Writing with Inform to the wiki post, but it looks like it is already at the edge (35000 chars) of what the forum software will countenance, so I’d have had to delete other stuff to make room. I’ll leave that possibility to whoever’s curating this resource…
