For an old programmer new to inform 7, is the adventure the IF/game you create, or getting inform to work?

Definitely both! XD But I don’t understand where the problem is. If you like the natural language concept in Inform7 you can learn it easily. If you don’t like it use Inform6 like many people do (including me).

[image] Review: Inform 7 IF Reviews and Essays 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 ha…

Hah! You beat me to it. The review for Inform 7 was also the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw this post.

They’re inextricable for me. Getting Inform to work often has an impact on how the game turns out. For instance, I’m trying to get a conversation mode working, and it’s not doing what I want. So I spend time searching and reading about conversation systems. And in my reading I see an example of some…

While I have written many a text game in BASIC, and can do so quickly, I am getting the understanding that Inform is where I need to be. For one, the ease to publish cross-platform and run in the browser is a super plus. A second biggie is it is parser based. I just have to re-train my brain from BA…

[image] Tom: I just have to re-train my brain from BASIC and several mainframe languages I know fluently I came to Inform without ever having coded anything in my life. I was a totally blank slate, programming-wise. I wonder if that made it a better experience for me because I had nothing to …

Discord isn’t great about pinned posts, so in case you’ve missed the pinned post of Inform 7 docs and resources , that has some good stuff. As a programmer I found Allison Parrish’s Inform 7 Concepts and Strategies to be a particularly useful beginner starting point. There’s also Inform 7 for program…

[image] Tom: I just have to re-train my brain from BASIC and several mainframe languages I know fluently. Inform 7 has most of the same functional programming pieces (e.g. conditionals, loops, etc.) that you would expect plus many that are in my limited experience unique to it. Some of the bi…

[image] Tom: For an old programmer new to inform 7, is the adventure the IF/game you create, or getting inform to work? I’m in my fifties, and a Java programmer at heart, and it took a little while to shake off my preconceptions and really grasp Inform 7, sort of like learning LISP back in co…

Meee… I too find it difficult to get Inform to complete the game as I intend. I always have to make compromises. Inform 6 and 7 are still wonderful programming languages. And I’m 72.

Old programmer blues

Authoring Inform 7

JoshGrams (Josh Grams) March 11, 2023, 2:19pm 3