Inform 7
Natural-language design system for interactive fiction
Inform 7 is a design system for creating interactive fiction using natural-language source text. The compiler and core tools are open source, allowing authors to build and self-host text adventure games.
Key features
- Natural-language game design
- Interactive fiction compiler
- Open-source toolchain
- Rich world modeling
Strengths
- Released under the Artistic-2.0 license
- Active community (1.6k GitHub stars)
- Written in C
- Tiny footprint — runs in 256 MB RAM
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