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2. if
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   2. interpreters
   3. anthology
   4. standards
3. learn
   1. learn
   2. movies
   3. manuals
   4. Complete Examples
   5. support
   6. changes
   7. papers
4. download
5. write
   1. write
   2. collaborate
   3. extensions
   4. test
   5. publish
6. teach
   1. teach
   2. Resources by Grade
   3. Resources by Subject
7. contribute
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   2. extensions
   3. report
8. sources
   1. Architecture
   2. Interfaces
   3. Inweb
   4. Webs
   5. I6N

Site Inventory

You are in a mazy of twisty little pages, all different.

You are visiting:

• documentation:

  • introduction to the material available

  • screencast movie of Inform in use

  • manuals for users:

    • Writing with Inform, one manual
    • The Recipe Book, the other manual
    • downloadable versions

  • complete examples:

    • introduction
    • Bronze, by Emily Short
    • Glass, by Emily Short
    • Damnatio Memoriae, by Emily Short
    • When in Rome 1: Accounting for Taste, by Emily Short
    • When in Rome 2: Far from Home, by Emily Short
    • The Reliques of Tolti-Aph, by Graham Nelson

  • guidelines for writing new extensions

  • technical documentation:

    • full change logs, 2006 to the present

    • standards documents for run-time formats and bibliographic data

    • how Inform works inside:

      • architecture of Inform
      • the Standard Rules used in every Inform project
      • the Inform 6 template code used in every Inform project
      • source code for the interface applications
      • Inweb, the literate programming tool we use
      • source code for Inweb (an Inweb web)
      • source code for cBlorb (an Inweb web)
      • source code for I6N, Inform 7's form of the Inform 6 compiler
      • miscellaneous other programs

• downloading the software:

  • the main Inform application

  • optional extras:

    • hundreds of extensions people have contributed
    • template websites for use with Inform's Release button

• education:

  • resources for teachers, by grade (i.e., student age level)
  • resources for teachers, by subject

• interactive fiction:

  • brief sketch of history
  • interpreters and virtual machines
  • formats (Z-machine and Glulx)
  • playing on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and the iPhone
  • a small anthology of older works to try out (Adventure, Curses, Jigsaw, Spider and Web, Shade, Dreamhold, Galatea, Savoir-Faire)
  • writing IF
  • collaborating with other IF authors
  • testing IF
  • publishing IF

• literate programming with Inweb (a related side-project)

• news:

  • the Inform news blog (with RSS feed)
  • change logs show exactly what has been added already
  • discussion papers talk about proposed new features
  • how to contribute news items

• support:

  • where to go for help
  • how to report a bug or an "internal error"

There are much richer resources for interactive fiction in general, elsewhere on the web. The IF Wiki is a good place to begin.

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