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.<br><br>Regards Roland<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/7 Bill Kerr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:billkerr@gmail.com">billkerr@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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.<br><a href="http://www.inform-fiction.org/I7/Inform%207.html" target="_blank">http://www.inform-fiction.org/I7/Inform%207.html</a><br>
<br>To make sense of it I had to read Chapter 2 of the Help<br><br>"<span style="color: rgb(25, 25, 25); line-height: 19px;">I</span><span style="color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">nform is a design system for interactive fiction ... </span>In place of traditional computer programming, the design is built by writing natural English-language sentences"<br>
<br>Some analysis here:<br>
<a href="http://www.ppig.org/newsletters/2008-10.html#inform" target="_blank">http://www.ppig.org/newsletters/2008-10.html#inform</a><br><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>Bill Kerr<br><a href="http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/</a><br>
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