Here for your use and pleasure is the Lost Items extension, my first extension and my first solo release in Inform 7. I would love to hear comments on the interface, coding and functionality. I hope it is useful to you!
I’m not clear on what official bodies I should submit this to. Does the IF Archive want extensions? Should I ask for this to become a public extensions?
There’s no “Release Extension” option in the IDE, is there? I didn’t know if there was an easy way to publish the documentation or nicely-formatted source on my website.
That small extension seems highly useful. Still, by reading the source, it seems it doesn’t handle containers nor supporters. That would be a nice addition.
I’m basically thinking of having some more standard responses.
Kitchen
You see a cardboard box.
> put ball into cardboard box
...
[some NPC takes the cardboard box later secretly]
...
Outdoors
> throw ball
The last time you saw the ball it was inside the cardboard box.
> open cardboard box
The last time you saw the cardboard box it was in the kitchen.
I’ve made a couple small changes. The notice absence rulebook has been changed to the noticing absence activity. There is a new “Did we lose” rulebook so you can customize which items are lost.