"Graham Nelson" <gra...@gnelson.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Inform 7: Interactive Fiction from Natural Language

> The Public Beta of Inform 7 is released today. The outcome of a
> three-year project of radical reinvention, this new Inform is not
> a compiler alone: it is an application - initially running on Mac
> OS X and Windows - which is simple to download, requires no
> configuration or fuss to begin in use, and brings together the
> editing, testing, indexing and publishing of interactive fiction
> within a simple one-window user interface. No knowledge of
> computer programming is initially required, and all documentation
> is included within the interface. A new project, consisting (say)
> of a couple of rooms and items, can be started and working in a
> matter of about two minutes, using only the Inform application:
> the source text is quickly typed and there is no need to create
> folders, access a command-line interface or perform any other
> extraneous tasks. At the other end of the writing process, Inform
> provides new tools for testing and validating IF, and an
> extensive suite of features for publishing.