Documentation

• Chapter: How to Write an Adventure Book
• Section: Introduction
• Section: Version History
• Section: Setting Up a Page
• Section: Choices
• Section: Pages Without Choices
• Chapter: Advanced Features
• Section: Setting Conditions
• Section: Inventory Items
• Section: Magic Words
• Section: Debugging
• Chapter: Integrating Inform 7 Code
• Section: Relationships
• Section: The Adventure Book Phrasebook
• Section: New Commands
• Section: Running Inform Code
• Chapter: Changes From the Original Adventure Book
• Section: Feature Changes
• Section: Porting Original Adventure Book Programs
• Chapter: Examples
• Section: Special Effects
• Example: * Simple Choices - The basics of setting up a story with choices.
• Example: ** Conversation Trees - How to create dialogue menus with story characters.
• Example: ** Lockable Door - How to create a door that can be locked or unlocked from the inside or outside by using an inventory item.
• Example: ** Adaptive Text - How to change what's written on a page based on the game state.
• Example: *** Winning and Dying - How to add traditional "win" and "die" messages to your games.
• Example: **** Combat System - Using the "run inform code for..." phrase to add functionality.
• Example: **** Placebo! - A complete adventure game in Adventure Book format.

Chapter: How to Write an Adventure Book

Section: Introduction

Adventure Book for Inform 7 is a recreation of the behavior of Jon Ingold's Adventure Book programming system. It offers a reasonably simple syntax for people who would like to create Choose Your Own Adventure style programs without a lot of hassle, but it also allows for some advanced features to make your program feel more like a real game -- changing conditions, inventory items, and magic words.

This documentation assumes some familiarity with Inform 7, but it's written with beginners and non-programmers in mind.

Special thanks to Jon Ingold for his feedback in the development of this extension. Comments are welcome at cpface@execpc.com.