Hello Ari et all, Inform 7, at least with jfw, is mostly accessible. It has two windows, the "coding" area where you actually enter your story mostly in full english sentences, and the second window is the viewer, where the program displays it's messages like compile status, errors, help pages, examples, etc. Features like the built in inform interpreter, skein, keywords list are not accessible, but to write your code, to compile and see the errors it's perfect. You can test your story with an external interpreter, like Zoom for the mac, frotz, etc. Inform 7 has an excellent help system, with many many examples and because the mode you're writing your stories is almost like natural english, it is extremely easy to learn and use. It's portable, there are interpreters for windows, linux, mac, even for pacmates. I've tried lots of if authoring systems which are programming-based, but since almost every one uses a c-syntax, i did not like them. There is one however, called JACL, which is extremely easy to learn if you have basic programming skills (no matter in which language). It is not that popular, in fact, the author told me i am the only person using it at the moment, but i hope that will change soon. It runs on linux, can run on windows under cygwin, and probably on the mac too. I say, if you want to write stories easily and you don't know how to program, go for inform. If you do know, go for JACL, it's much easier than tads, inform 6 or others. You can download the Inform 7 environment at: http://www.inform-fiction.org and you can get JACL at: http://jacl.sf.net Rob
----- Original Message ----- Subject: [Audyssey] writing a text adventure Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 10:17:11 +0200 From: "ari" Hi all, I remember asking this ages ago, and someone suggested that, without any knowledge of programming, you could use inform to write a text adventure, but that it wasn't too great for screen readers. What I want to know is, even using programming, what's the most accessible package to write text adventures in, and what's the difference between them. If you also don't know programming, isn't there maybe an quickstart guide somewhere for a text adventure writer? Thanks Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
