Alphabetical Index of Examples

	Examples in Thematic Order
	Examples in Numerical Order
	General Index
	Part I. Writing with Inform
	Part II. The Inform Recipe Book

A	A&E AARP-Gnosis The Abolition of Love About Inform's regular expression support About the examples Accented and exotic letters and symbols Access All Areas Actaeon Actions prohibited in the presence of a dangerous character Actor's Studio Adverbs used in commands Aftershock Age of Steam Ahem Air Conditioning is Standard Alias Alien Invasion Part 23 All actions given different durations All Roads Lead to Mars Allowing EXAMINE to see multiple objects with a single command Allowing the player to describe his character before starting play Alpaca Farm Alpha Altering response text programmatically America Stands Tall AMUSING menu shown at the endgame Anchorite Annoyotron Jr Another, distinct from the player Ant-Sensitive Sunglasses Anteaters Apples Appointments at future times Appraisal The Art of Noise ASK person TO do something, understood ASK someone ABOUT an object the same as SHOW ASKing about a conversation topic other than the one the player typed Asking the player a Yes/No question Asking the player to choose a gender Aspect Assigning attributes randomly at the start of play ATTACK and DROP break fragile things Attitude rules An automatically closing door Awarding points for visiting a room
B	Backdrops that move conditionally Backdrops which can only be examined Bad Hair Day Baedeker Baking soda which has a different name when next to a smelly thing Ballpark Banner printing at appropriate times Baritone, Bass Barter Barter Basic room, container, and supporter descriptions Basic switchable light for a room Basic window similar to a door Battle of Ridgefield Bay Leaves and Honey Wine Beachfront Bee Chambers Beekeeper's Apprentice Being Peter Being Prepared Belfry Beneath the Surface The Best Till Last Beverage Service Bibliophilia Bic The Big Sainsbury's Big Sky Country Bikini Atoll Blackout Blanking the status line before play Blankness Blink Bogart Book with numbered pages Book with various contents Bookshelf with numerous books Bosch Boston Cream Bottles with removable stoppers Bowler Hats and Baby Geese Bribery Broken and unbroken flowerpots Brown Bruneseau's Journey Bumping into Walls BURN command, and flammable objects Buttons BUY command and a system of money BUY command and money, complete with denominations
C	Cactus Will Outlive Us All Camp Bethel Campfire lit Candy Capital City Capitalised status line Car which can only be driven on roads Carnivale Carousel Room from which exits lead to random locations Case change for text produced by to say phrases Casino Banale Cave Entrance Cave-troll Celadon Centered Chanel Version 1 Change of Basis Changing the final question after victory Channel 1. Television that can be referred to by channel 2. Television with more advanced parsing Character who learns new actions by watching the player Characters and objects with titles and special articles Characters killed off by trigger actions Characters referred to when absent Characters renamed in play Check rules modified for taking something we're inside Checking for missed properties Cheese-makers Chest with a supporting lid Child who asks if we're there yet Chronic Hinting Syndrome Cinco Circle of Misery Claims Adjustment Cloak of Darkness Clocks that can be SET TO any time Clothes made of priced fabrics Clothing kinds Clothing that layers Clothing with layering and regions of the body Clouds with random descriptions Cloves Clueless Colour names for exotic pigments COMBINE action for connecting multiple objects into one Command applying to an object added to the story Command prompt changing to reflect state of combat Commercial break Compass directions renamed Complimentary Peanuts Concealed pet who would yip at you if it could see you Concealing clothing for other characters Contact with objects detected Containers and supporters given a common kind Containers referred to by contents Containers that calculate internal volume and available room Containers which have a breaking strain Continuous space with distant objects visible Continuous space with distant objects visible and automatic room description Continuous space, simple Control Center Controlling the order in which multiple-object actions occur Conversation based on keyword recognition Conversation system with recap of past exchanges Conversation where characters seek logical connection to foregoing topics Conversation with multiple options for each conversation topic Copper River Costa Rican Ornithology The Cow Exonerated The Crane's Leg 1. Descriptions based on how objects compare with player's expectations 2. Descriptions based on player-character's observation abilities Creating our own text variations rules Creating our own text variations rules, part two Croft Crusoe Curare CUT and TIE for lengths of string CUT [something] WITH [something] command Cycle of day and night scenes Cyclical randomization of named objects
D	Dangerous objects not to be touched The Dark Ages Revisited Dark rooms given non-standard description A Day For Fresh Sushi Day One Deadbolted door unlockable without a key on one side Dearth and the Maiden Death message replaced Deck of cards Delayed Gratification Delicious, Delicious Rocks Democratic Process Depth Describing action outcomes using a random choice of verb Describing action outcomes using a random choice of verb or describing the world state that results Describing action outcomes using an adaptive random choice of verb Describing objects with parts Describing ongoing character behavior with participles Describing relations using a random choice of verb Description from inside a vehicle Device to remember and play back actions DIAGNOSE command Dimensions Dinner is Served Disambiguating based on properties Disambiguating body parts Disambiguation question giving items more explicit names Disambiguation question worded in a new way entirely Disenchantment Bay 1. The charter boat 2. Scenery 3. Glacier view 4. Descriptions of things 5. Cabin door and deck 6. Locked-up fishing rods 7. Radar and instruments 8. Pushable chest of ice 9. The Captain 10. Clothing and possessions 11. The player's backpack 12. Complete playable scenario Disorderly conduct Do Pass Go Don Pedro's Revenge Door described and parsed differently depending on where it is Door described differently depending on where it is Door kind that describes the destination Doors as seen by NPCs Doors that open automatically Down Below Down in Oodville Drawers where thing is always in the last opened DRINKing a potion which then goes away DROP applies even to objects the player carries indirectly DROP modified to distinguish between large and small enterable supporters DROPPING into and onto things Dubai Duplicated blue, red and green building blocks
E	Early Childhood Eddystone Electric light kind of device Electrified An elevator operated simply by walking in and out An elevator which takes the player to alternate floors Elsie Emma Empire Encyclopedia set Endurance Enterable objects Entrapment Entrevaux Entropy Equation used for price curves Equipment List Escape Escape action for non-player characters only Escape from the Seraglio Every turn an opponent plays Exact numbers replaced with vague quantifiers EXAMINE multiple things at once EXAMINE produces special results for a group of objects Examining everything at once Examining the player An example bouquet of flowers Exits added to a room Exits and rooms listed in the status line Exits only listed in the status line Extension design advice Extra Supplies The Eye of the Idol Eyes, Fingers, Toes
F	Fabrication The Facts Were These Falling into a pit when going from darkness to darkness Fallout Enclosure Farewell Fate Steps In Faux-infinite supply of red pens Feline Behavior Ferragamo Again The Fibonacci Sequence Fido The Fifth Body Fifty Times Fifty Ways Fifty Ways to Leave Your Larva Filtering text output in room names Finality FIND command Finding the bottom of a pile Fine Laid Finishing School First look text added for a newly entered room First Name Basis Fish of ambiguous species Flashlight Flathead News Network Flotation FOLLOW command Food Network Interactive Food with ingredients affecting the player Footnote system For Demonstration Purposes Fore Formal syntax of sentences Formicidae Four Cheeses Four Stars 1. Dark room which relies on other senses when light is off 2. Scope for listening different from scope for seeing The Fourth Body Fragment of a Greek Tragedy Frizz Frozen Assets Full Moon FULL SCORE using a list of stored actions FULL SCORE with achievements table and rankings Fun with Participles Furniture, resentment of Further Reasons Why All Poets Are Liars
G	Garibaldi 1. Readout of all doors in the game 2. Coloured text styles Generation X Get Axe GET DOWN and DOWN understood as EXIT Get Me to the Church on Time Ginger Beer GIVE action for other characters GIVE command extended GIVE extended to multiple objects at once GO BACK command GO equivalent to GO OUT GO OUT and GO IN determine most appropriate direction if none is defined GO TO ROOM command GO TO ROOM with automatic door-handling en route GO UP and GO DOWN determined by room altitude Goat-Cheese and Sage Chicken GOing an invalid direction produces a list of valid exits Going Going Gopher-wood The Gorge at George Graph-theory view of relations Grilling Guided Tour
H	The Hang of Thursdays Happy Hour Hatless A Haughty Spirit Hays Code Hayseed Heat death HELP command is recommended if the player seems lost HELP command with specific set of topics HELP menu from extension, with added content HELP with a simple menu A hexagonal map grid for movement Hiding things under other things Higher Calling Hint access able to be turned off for the duration of the game Hints leading the player through conversation Hints leading the player through physical puzzles Histories of previous games saved to external file History Lab Hohmann Transfer Horribly heavy box described differently after being taken Hot Glass Looks Like Cold Glass Hotel Stechelberg Hour of the Wren Hover HTML-style italic and boldface tags Hudsucker Industries A Humble Wayside Flower Hunger eventually killing the player Hymenaeus The Hypnotist of Blois
I	I Didn't Come All The Way From Great Portland Street Ibid. Identifying nouns by the last thing done to them Identity Theft If It Hadn't Been For... Igpay Atinlay Implicit takes require time In Fire or in Flood Incorporating changeable objects into the body of the room description Indirection Infiltration Instant EXAMINE and LOOK Interrogation Introduction to Juggling INVENTORY handling of properties made more flexible INVENTORY listing with separate carried and worn items INVENTORY revised for other characters Inventory standard response changed INVENTORY wide and tall IPA IQ Test Ish.
J	Jamaica 1688 Joke command added Jokers Wild
K	Keywords in place of ordinary commands Kinds given new singular and plural synonyms Kiwi Kyoto
L	Labyrinth of Ghosts Lakeside Living Lanista 1. Simple Randomized Combat 2. Randomized Combat with Weapons Latin Lessons Latris Theon Laura Lead Cuts Paper Lean and Hungry The Left Hand of Autumn Lemonade Leopard-skin Lethal Concentration 1. Gas diffusion from a source through adjacent rooms 2. Gas diffusion in which gas is heavier than air Letters described as a group Levels of lighting Lies Light levels variable depending on the number of candles the player has lit Light-filled rooms as a route through a space Lighting and relighting a candle Liquid containers with measured contents Liquid model with large bodies of liquid added Liquids in mixtures, identified by recipe LISTEN command extended LOCK and UNLOCK with altered carrying requirements Lollipop Guild LOOK [direction] command LOOK mentions only currently useful objects LOOK UNDER shows nothing unless the player has a light Low Light Lucy Lugubrious Pete's Delicatessen
M	M. Melmoth's Duel Machine that transmutes objects Magnet which picks up nearby metal objects Magneto's Revenge The Man of Steel The Man of Steel Excuses Himself Map region listed in status line Marble chute toy Masochism Deli Matches that set fires Mathematical view of relations Matreshka Mattress King Maze escaped by performing an exact sequence of actions Maze with randomized room links Meet Market Menu of numerical options Merlin Meteoric I and II Midsummer Day Mimicry Ming Vase Minimal Movement Mirror into which the player can look Mirror remembering a room description from the past Mirror, Mirror Misadventure Missing nouns supplied in commands to characters Mistress of Animals Model objects referred to by the thing modeled Model Shop Modern Conveniences Modifying and re-parsing an entered command Money for Nothing Morning After Moving a backdrop during play Mr. Burns' Repast MRE Multiple-object actions given modified descriptions Murder on the Orient Express Murderer chosen randomly at start of play Mutt's Adventure
N	Name of a dog set by the player Name of player character selected at start of play Nameless Names of objects change with player's diction Narration which changes as the player learns new facts Narrative Register Near-infinite supply of pizza Neighborhood Watch Nickel and Dimed Night and Day The Night Before Night Sky Nine AM Appointment No Place Like Home No Relation Noisemaking Noisy Cricket North by Northwest North-northwest and similar directions Northstar Novice mode offers suggestions before each prompt Number Study Numberless Numbers in relations
O	Object-based rulebooks Observation stage after report Odin Odyssey OFFER price FOR command allowing player to bargain Olfactory Settings On/off button for devices One of Those Mornings One Short Plank Only You... Orange Cones Originals Otherwise if demonstrated Otranto Owen's Law Oyster Wide Shut
P	Paddington Pages Pair of dice for rolling Palette Panache Paragraphs of flexible descriptions Parser errors involving the any token Past tense conditions Patient Zero Peeled Peers People changing their titles during play People commanded to obey People introduced by relative People listed as a group, with their possessions afterward People perform errands and randomly spread disease People who do new things each time the player looks People who interact with each other each turn People who move around a party on their own People who must be greeted before conversation People who reject categories of instruction Persephone Person capable of reaching through solid objects Person who answers questions based on a common pool of knowledge Person who answers what, where, and when questions differently Person who comments on the player's every action Person who finds a path to a destination specified by player Person who follows the player Person who gets fed up after being asked to do many implausible things Person who laments broken objects Person who moves on a pre-determined path Person who moves randomly Person who obeys almost all instructions Person who opens a container before trying to get something from it Person who picks up treasures Person who pursues his own goals each turn Peugeot Photographs referred to by subject matter Phrase to repeat a rule Phrases applying to specific things Pig Latin for the player's commands Pine 1. Waking the Princess 2. Chatting with the Princess 3. Flashback scenes described to the Princess 4. Flashback with multiple endings Pink or Blue Pizza Prince Plank bridge breaks on being crossed when the player is carrying something Player controls multiple player-characters in turn Player's erroneous command recorded for later Player's height randomized at the start of play Plot summary in place of a score Pocket added to every jacket A point for never saving the game The Pointy Hat of Liminal Transgression Polarity Police State Politics as Usual Polygons Port Royal 1. A landscape from Jamaica, 1691 2. With one-way connections added 3. Divided into regions 4. Character names 5. Producing an EPS map Postures for sitting, standing, and lying down Pot of Petunias POUR that pours liquid on a fire The Prague Job Preferences file loaded on replaying Princess and the Pea Printed names for complex-named objects Printing the description of something activity Priority Lab Prisoner's Dilemma The Problem of Edith Producing an EPS floorplan Producing an EPS map of Greece Prolegomena Properties, checking for Proposal Provenance Unknown Puff of Orange Smoke Puncak Jaya PUSH something A DIRECTION modified PUSH something a direction with extra phrasing PUSH SOMETHING TO check rules modified Pushing a box between named internal positions in a room PUT and INSERT automatically TAKE first PUT and INSERT automatically TAKE first even with multiples
Q	The Queen of Sheba Query Questionable Revolutions Questions asked of the player Quiz Show
R	Radio Daze Radio producing cycling programming Radios and other devices active when switched on Raised supporter kind that conceals its contents Random distribution at the start of play Random variations within text Randomized pedestrian passer-by rBGH READ command separate from EXAMINE Real Adventurers Need No Help Recorder that records sounds made by player and non-player actions Red Cross Red sticky label Redirecting actions to new objects Redirecting all actions from one object to another Reflections Refusing to understand "hot" Region off-limits to a player without VIP pass Regions, traveling from Relations and their uses Relations applying to multiple values of the same kind Relations syntax explored Relevant Relations REMEMBER command keyed to topics Removal Reordering multiple objects for dramatic effect Replanting Reporting rules for other characters' behavior Responding to questions starting with WHO, WHAT, etc. Responsive Restrictions preventing inappropriate behavior Results of a rule Resuming play after an accidental death Revenge of the Fussy Table Rip Van Winkle Robo 1. Robot that stores only one program at a time 2. Robot able to store and perform fifteen named scripts Rock Garden Rocket Man Room description changes after first visit Room description changes after note is read Room description changes at each of several visits A room where the game cannot be saved Rooms player is forced to visit in order Rooms with sounds of nearby water, illuminated by flickering light Rooms with sounds of nearby water, illuminated by flickering light Rooms with visible exteriors Rope, able to be tied to things and dragged betwixt rooms An RSS reader connecting to the Internet Rubies Rules of Attraction
S	Sackcloth Safari Guide Safe that can be opened with a combination Safe with a multi-number combination Safety Saint Eligius Sand Sanity-check stage before the Before rules Savannah Saying a number in round numbers Scene that ends as soon as the player has embarrassed himself Scene which plays through a series of events in order, then ends Scene which starts and finishes Scene with random atmospheric events Scenes which change as the player explores his inventory Scenes which restrict movement Scenes with props lists and location properties Scheduling an eclipse Scope approaches compared Scope for large objects visible far away Scoreboard preserved between games Scored items listed in a table Search and Seizure SEARCH [room] action that opens every visible unlocked container SEARCHing for an item which moves into play The Second Oldest Problem Setting pronouns to respond to sudden changes SHAKE command Shawn's Bad Day Shifting alliances among people Shiny items are described as reflecting torchlight Shipboard directions Shipping Trunk Shirts constructed from component parts SHOOT command, and ray gun disintegrating objects Shops open and close at specific hours SHOW something without taking it first Shuffling the arrangement of items in a container Sieve of Eratosthenes Signpost that can be turned Signposts to distant rooms Signs and Portents Single yellow onion in a sack Situation Room Sleep and waking Slightly Wrong Slogar's Revenge Slouching Smart window Smoke which spreads, not tracking concentration Smuggler carrying hidden items Snip Solitude Some Assembly Required Something Narsty Space Patrol - Stranded on Jupiter! The Speed of Thought Spellbreaker Spring Cleaning Staircase kind of door which diverts the CLIMB command Staircase kind of door, always open and unopenable Standard IF demonstration Starry Void Stately Gardens Status line with centered text, the easy way Status line with centered text, the hard way Stone Story driven by internal rules Straw Boater Straw Into Gold Streaming Strictly Ballroom Studious Substituting insults and boasts Supporter from which the player cannot take things Supporters that don't list contents in room descriptions Sweeney Swerve left? Swerve right? Or think about it and die? Swigmore U. Sybil 1. ASK, TELL, and ANSWER conflated 2. YES and NO directed to people
T	Table of juggling equipment TAKE action reports where the noun came from TAKE prints a description TAKE scenery producing a custom response TALK TO command used with scenes TALK TO usage corrected Tamed Technological Terror Telephones reaching distant parties Telephones with standard American-length phone numbers Telescope allowing view of another room Tense Boxing Terracotta Terracottissima Terracottissima Maxima Terror of the Sierra Madre Testing command Testing for empty properties Testing the locale description order Text Foosball Thirst Thirst 2 3 AM THROW [something] AT [something] command enhanced Tilt 1. Deck of cards that can be referred to by name 2. Identifying poker hands 3. Playing cards with colored unicode suits Time expressed in units other than minutes Time told in 24-hour military style Timeless Tiny Garden To say rules for insults and boasts Today Tomorrow Tom's Midnight Garden Torch understood as flaming or extinguished Totality Tour des Maillots Trachypachidae Maturin 1803 Train that makes station stops Transmutations Travel requiring a vehicle Travel to a room described Trieste The Trouble with Printing Trying Taking Manhattan Turns take 15 minutes each Turns take a quarter day each
U	U-Stor-It The Über-complète clavier Unblinking The Unbuttoned Elevator Affair Uncommon Ground Under Contract Understanding names of things, basic Understanding new commands involving compass directions Understanding text Understanding units as part of the name of a thing The Undertomb The Undertomb 1 The Undertomb 2 UNDO not mentioned in the final question The Unexamined Life Unit conversions Unpeeled Unthinkable Alliances Up and Up Uptempo Uptown Girls USE action which divines rational behavior for a wide range of possible nouns Using lists as arrays Using lists as queues Using lists as rings Using lists as sets Using lists as sieves Using lists as stacks
V	Van Helsing Variety Variety 2 Variety of postures Varying room description text Verbosity 1. Brief descriptions by default 2. Full-length descriptions mandatory Veronica Versailles Video camera that records all actions A View of Green Hills Virtue Vitrine Vouvray
W	Wainwright Acts WAIT [number] MINUTES command WAIT UNTIL [time] command Waiting Room Walls and Noses Wand which reveals a person's concealed possessions Waterskin being depleted Waterworld Ways Out Weathering Weighbridge Wesponses Western Art History 305 What Makes You Tick What Not To Wear When? Whence? Whither? Widget Enterprises Window connecting two rooms Windows in high places Winds of Change Witnessed 1. Batteries, swappable between devices 2. EMF Meter Wonderland Wonka's Revenge The World of Charles S. Roberts Would you...? WRITE IN command that will open a free-text mode WRITE text IN command that will store text WXPQ
X	Xerxes Xot Xylan XYZZY
Y	Y ask Y? Yolk of Gold You see nothing special... message replaced Your Mother Doesn't Work Here
Z	Zero Zodiac Zorb Zork II Zorn of Zorna Zqlran Era 8