Darren New wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>> In later years I've been digging interactive-fiction games (AKA 
> 
> If you're into that sort of thing, this is a very cool authoring system 
> for them. Basically, the same sort of parser that the game uses is 
> employed to write the game itself.
> 
> http://inform-fiction.org/I7/Welcome.html

Yes, Inform is one of those systems I was talking about.  Graham Nelson 
reverse engineered Infocom's z-machine format and wrote a compiler for 
it still in the nineties.  Inform 7 is the latest evolution: a (almost) 
natural language parser that compiles to previous Inform 6 format.  It's 
a joy to behold.  Unfortunately I don't have enough english skills 
(mostly vocabulary) nor literary talent to try my hand at writing games 
with it.

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