Hi. This is my first time writing interactive fiction, so if I have
overlooked some huge, glaring error I’m sorry.
I read the documentation about the extension and it seems pretty clear
to me, but when I typed it all down Inform couldn’t process all the
links or responses to the dialogue. For example, I typed:
Instead of giving link to lady_polite2: say “‘I’m [italic type]imeline
[roman type], just like you.’”
Instead of finding responses to lady_polite2: say “She smiles for a
second and nods for an even shorter time. This isn’t going well.”
Instead of finding responses to lady_polite2: link to lady_expolite;
lady_casual; link to lady_true1.
Instead of preparing lady_polite: do nothing.
Inform thinks all of it is an error. Here’s one:
Problem. You wrote ‘Instead of finding responses to lady_polite3’ ,
which seems to introduce a rule taking effect only if the action is
‘finding responses to lady_polite3’. But that did not make sense as a
description of an action. I am unable to place this rule into any
rulebook.
Also, I used to write “Deactivate link to lady_polite,” because I
looked over the source code of Fate by Victor Gijsbers, but that
didn’t work. So I changed it to “Instead of preparing lady_expolite,
lady_polite, lady_casual, lady_true1: do nothing.” But that doesn’t
work either.
I think there are other problems, but Inform doesn’t list all of them
at one time.