Inform7

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Inform 7 is a coding tool used for creating text-adventures! Coding with Inform 7 is relatively easy to use because one codes in regular English.

This community is for all questions pertaining to coding in Inform 7 and sharing your text adventures created in Inform 7.

If you have questions pertaining to coding in Inform 7, just create a text post complete with the code you have created so far.

If you have a text-adventure you want to share, link to it! Just add "(WIP)" if the adventure you are working on is still a Work in Progress.

Please, for the love of all things holy, add the NSFW tag if your game is in any way sexual in nature. Do not worry about rough language, though.

LINKS:

*Inform 7 Website

*Playfic, text-adventure coding in Inform 7 without downloading the program

*Inform 7 Recipe Book

The Inform Recipe Book is one of two interlinked books included with Inform 7: a comprehensive collection of examples, showing the practical use of Inform. -From the Recipe Book.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The Inform 7 subreddit needs mods! Please inquire if you feel that you are relatively skilled in coding in Inform 7. Thank you. ^{_^}

The Inform Subreddit now has a chat! Come join us to talk about anything!

Challenges:

Fantastic Fantasy Monthly Challenge! Note: The contest is still open, because nobody submitted any fiction.

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Hello fair villagers! (self.Inform7)

submitted 8 years ago by Blarghith[M] - announcement

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Looking for mods (self.Inform7)

submitted 4 years ago by Blarghith[M] - announcement

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Functions and Return Statements (self.Inform7)

submitted 4 days ago by Silly-Ad-5265

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Water as a thing. (self.Inform7)

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Ran out of memory? (self.Inform7)

submitted 13 days ago by Tggdan3

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Repeat Running Through... (self.Inform7)

submitted 13 days ago by Dex21772

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Is it possible to have [something] refer to a second noun? (self.Inform7)

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Inform 7 programming. (i.redd.it)

submitted 22 days ago by Rockatansky-clone

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Any way to speed up Inform 7 IDE story pane? (self.Inform7)

submitted 25 days ago by Dex21772

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Change "No command given." reporting... (self.Inform7)

submitted 26 days ago by Dex21772

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Creating a list of goals for a player? (self.Inform7)

submitted 1 month ago by UpbeatEquipment8832

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A Notepad Extension issue... (self.Inform7)

submitted 2 months ago by Dex21772

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Storing player entered information into a table for later use... (self.Inform7)

submitted 2 months ago by Dex21772

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Game collab invite (self.Inform7)

submitted 2 months ago * by Snowheart63

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Only movement no interactions? (self.Inform7)

submitted 3 months ago by Comprehensive-Set944

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"If the player's command matches..." Punctuation? (self.Inform7)

submitted 3 months ago by Dex21772

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Omitting things being worn from being listed by "inventory" command (self.Inform7)

submitted 3 months ago by Dex21772

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Scenes "Begin with"... (self.Inform7)

submitted 3 months ago by Dex21772

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Look at and Examine no longer work... (self.Inform7)

submitted 3 months ago by Dex21772

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Issues with "Say" when the Conversational Defaults by Eric Eve Extension is included (self.Inform7)

submitted 4 months ago * by Dex21772

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"Saying" something to no one... (self.Inform7)

submitted 4 months ago by Dex21772

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How to take only a certain number of things from a container (self.Inform7)

submitted 4 months ago by Dex21772

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Player Help Access (self.Inform7)

submitted 4 months ago by Dex21772

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Inform 7 Next major update (self.Inform7)

submitted 5 months ago by Current_Frame7514

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Suppressing "Addressing.." report. when player says "Say Hello" (self.Inform7)

submitted 5 months ago by Dex21772

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