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> but many have told me later that they really like coding an IF game using Inform 7 once

TIL a programming language purpose built for text adventure games, Is there any example of a famous game written using it with source? I wonder whether inform is specifically useful where there's meta programming within the game.

Also, You seem to take extra care and effort in teaching your students and I appreciate it.

Edit: It seems like there are several inform 7 games at itch.io - https://itch.io/games/tag-inform-7 .

Bonus: While searching about how the games are published on web, I found the following snippet -

   Release along with an interpreter.
Apparently that creates a web page and encodes the game as a Parchment (Javascript) file!



> Is there any example of a famous game written using it with source?

Here's a page of links to Inform source for a number of games including Zork. Obviously it's a rewrite of Zork using Inform as Infocom predate Inform by many years.

https://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive/games/source/inform...


Excellent, Thank you. Considering there's no use in protecting the source of web games, I guess most would be inclined to release it anyways.




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