[Yr7-10it] inform 7

Roland Gesthuizen rgesthuizen at gmail.com
Mon Dec 8 09:18:43 EST 2008


Thanks Bill .. I had some fun creating an adventure story off the top of my
head and entering it in as plain-text. Whilst it is worth reading the
manual, this certainly has potential for an English classroom.

Regards Roland

2008/12/7 Bill Kerr <billkerr at gmail.com>

> I've been playing with inform 7. It is very interesting and I think I'll be
> using it in 2009. I'd also like to show it to some English teachers and get
> their reaction.
> http://www.inform-fiction.org/I7/Inform%207.html
>
> To make sense of it I had to read Chapter 2 of the Help
>
> "Inform is a design system for interactive fiction ... In place of
> traditional computer programming, the design is built by writing natural
> English-language sentences"
>
> Some analysis here:
> http://www.ppig.org/newsletters/2008-10.html#inform
>
> --
> Bill Kerr
> http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/
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