inform6-compiler

Inform 6 interactive fiction language — compiler

Inform 6 is an object-oriented language for writing interactive fiction, also known as “text adventures” or “adventure games”. As an interactive fiction developer, you create Inform 6 source code defining the story. Then compile from source code to a “story file”. The resulting story files are highly portable, with interpreters available for many different platforms. The Inform 6 compiler can produce a story file in these formats: * Z-code, executed by implementations of the Infocom Z-machine. * Glulx, a modern platform for interactive fiction. This package installs: * The Inform 6 compiler program, ‘inform6’.

inform

story file compiler for the Inform interactive fiction language (v6)

Inform is an object-oriented language for text adventure games which are commonly known as "interactive fiction". The story files are compiled into a special form of bytecode (Z-code) which can then be run by Z-code interpreters that exist for a multitude of operating systems. This package contains: * the Inform compiler * the Inform standard library * several user-supplied extensions and modules