Inform

A Design System for Interactive Fiction

Writing with Inform

1. Welcome to Inform
2. The Source Text
3. Things
4. Kinds
5. Text
6. Descriptions
7. Basic Actions
8. Change
9. Time
10. Scenes
11. Phrases
12. Advanced Actions
13. Relations
14. Adaptive Text and Responses
15. Numbers and Equations
16. Tables
17. Understanding
18. Activities
19. Rulebooks
20. Advanced Text
21. Lists
22. Advanced Phrases
23. Figures, Sounds and Files
24. Testing and Debugging
25. Releasing
26. Publishing
27. Extensions

Recipe Book

1. How to Use The Recipe Book
2. Adaptive Prose
3. Place
4. Time and Plot
5. The Viewpoint Character
6. Commands
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7. Other Characters
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8. Vehicles, Animals and Furniture
9. Props: Food, Clothing, Money, Toys, Books, Electronics
10. Physics: Substances, Ropes, Energy and Weight
11. Out Of World Actions and Effects
12. Typography, Layout, and Multimedia Effects
13. Testing and Publishing

Inform 7 for Programmers (for 8.5/6G60) by Ron Newcomb