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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…

2 years ago

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…

2 years ago

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…

2 years ago

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,…

3 years ago

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".

4 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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

10 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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:…

12 years ago

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,…

14 years ago

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…

15 years ago

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…

16 years ago

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…

18 years ago

[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…

18 years ago

Introducing Inform 7

Inform 7, or I7, is a dramatic departure from what has come before. IF languages such as Inform 6, TADS,…

18 years ago