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Computers and Writing workshop on Inform 7. (Happening now. In an asynchronous way.)
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa8nPphL2gf2kdd6ciLcqK9jh6tF5nyFL Inform 7 Source Code (released under the "CC BY 4.0" license) Your Office Demo (CandW22 Inform 7 Workshop, Video…
I just dusted off a #textadventure project I started in Inform6 around 1999.
I just dusted off a #textadventure project I started in Inform6 around 1999. By around 2007 I had rebuilt about…
Inform 7 is now open source
Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language, and consists of a core compiler, together with…
1993: Curses (Aaron A. Reed’s “50 Years of Text Games”)
The latest in Aaron A. Reed’s monumental project” 50 Years of Text Games” focuses on Graham Nelson’s programming language Inform,…
Computers and Writing 2020 Funding Request: Submitted
My contributions this year are a workshop on #Inform7 and "Fixed It For You: Modding Memes, Maps and Minds".
Text Adventure Geeks Rejoice: Major Inform7 Update
I have final grades, an annual report, and a video project for a publisher to finish before I unleash my…
Here is an example of how I teach with Inform 7.
Here is an example of how I teach with Inform 7. jerz.setonhill.edu/blog/2012/11/1… @THATCampPGH #tcpgh13
Iffy “Cloak of Darkness” on Inform7/Parchment
"Iffy Cloak of Darkness" is based on the "Cloak of Darkness" specification -- a very simple pattern, designed to help programmers compare…
Procedural Enthymeme with Inform7
Pretty awesome, focused use of Inform 7. (I'm generally content just to let my students explore, trusting through experience that…
Make Games in the Classroom with Inform 7
I'll blog pretty much anything that has to do with Inform 7. Text-based games, or interactive fiction, have continued to…
What a 21st-Century English Major Can Do: Screencast Demo of an Inform 7 Text-Adventure Journalism Game
Have I mentioned lately that I have some really awesome students? Here's a narrated screencast, presenting a progress report on…
Inform 7 Exploration – New Media Projects (EL405)
Before class, Watch this 10-minute introduction to Modern Interactive Fiction. Watch this 2-minute trailer for a documentary film on interactive fiction. (Optional:…
Inform 7 Updated
Ordinarily, this would call for an all-nighter. I'm feeling rather worn down after 4 days of marking AP English exams,…
Coding as a General Education Requirement? Reflections on Inform 7 and Scratch.
At the recent Computers & Writing conference, I found myself, in the Q & A during several sessions, strongly advocating…
Question about INFORM7 IF playing from Web Pages
I got an e-mail this morning from a multimedia developer who found my online version of Emily Short's Metamorphoses, asking…
Natural Language Game Programming with Inform 7
Programming games is an activity. A programming language is a kind of thing. Inform 7 is a kind of programming…
[Graham Nelson and Emily Short discuss Inform 7]
Chartres cathedral used to have an actual bazaar in it, in the middle ages - you could buy vegetables, or…
Introducing Inform 7
Inform 7, or I7, is a dramatic departure from what has come before. IF languages such as Inform 6, TADS,…