Inform 7

[packbat]

After a certain point, you simply have to admit that you're hooked. Well, here it is.

Inform 7 is cool. I'm writing a text adventure.

Will I enter something in IFComp 2007? Dunno. Will I get involved with the IF community? Dunno. Will I give it up after a week? Probably Dunno. But if you feel like offering encouragement, commentary, or critique (or just listening to me talk), I'm setting up a filter for IF stuff now – just drop in a comment, and I'll put you in.

(It's either bad or good that all my ideas seem to involve writing new 'rules' for the game – I don't know which.)

Comments

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Adding to the filter now! First post's already up.

And don't worry – guess-the-verb games are #2 on my list of Things-You-Don't-Do-These-Ever-And-I-Mean-It. (Unplayably-buggy is #1, natch.)

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Please tell me mazes are #3.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Uhh ....

*quickly edits list*

Of course! And #4 is oops-you-die traps (http://www.absurdnotions.org/page38.html), #5 is requiring the player to "wait" for tons of turns, and #6 is introducing weird conflicts of item names (e.g. "the button" and "the blue button").

I'm still missing something, aren't I? *starts scanning list again*