Old programmer blues

[JoshGrams]

Review: Inform 7

It’s hard to believe that, in the decade plus since its original release, Graham Nelson’s masterwork puzzlefest Inform 7 has received almost no critical attention as interactive fiction. Most of the people reading this will have previously heard of Inform 7 only as “that game where you play someone writing a text adventure” (or, in the official Inform 7 parlance, “a story”). Some may have heard of it only negatively as “that frustrating game that pretends to understand English but really doesn’t…