Tunxis New Media

My IF Snippets Web Site

Here is the link to my Inform 7 site:
The Foyer is a Room

Today we will finish our work with Nine Points and then spend some time with The Legend of Grammy’s Apples. This will establish our foundation for playing works of IF and then begin discussing how we will be creating a work of IF.
Then we will discuss the basics: creating the world of the story (rooms, [...]

IF Project [Fall 09] – Getting Started

We will be starting the interactive fiction project on Wednesday (10/21) and there are several things you will need in order to get ready:

Read “Getting Started With Interactive Fiction“;
Bookmark this page: Interactive Fiction Shorts;
Play “Nine Points” at the above web page (and feel free to play any of the others linked there);
Download and install Inform [...]

IFs for Spring Are Online

Works of IF from the 2009 New Media Perspectives and Digital Narratives classes are available to play online.
Check them out here.

[NMP09] IF 02 – Actions & Rules

Here is the code I demo’ed on Monday morning about actions and the after, before, carry out, and instead rules:

[DN09] Scenes Part 02 – Cut Scenes

Here is the cut scene demonstration I did last Tuesday night:

[DN09] Scenes and Regions Part 01

Here is the code for one of the examples I demonstrated last class:

[NMP09] Interactive Fiction 01

My I7 tutorial page is located here. You can find basic information plus more sophisticated tricks as well beyond the documentation included with the software.
Here is the code I was demo’ing in class:

Interactive Fiction Writing Month

Updated Links to the IF Projects!

I’ve updated the links to the interactive fiction projects. They are now at:
http://newmedia.hpiweb.com/play/
Make sure you update your links to your IF projects as the old ones will no longer work!!

Play the IF 1st Drafts Online

The 1st drafts of the IF projects are available to play online.
Check some of them out and blog about your impressions.

Updates to the Inform 7 Snippets

I’ve updated the snippets site with some new ones in these two areas:

Conversations

New stuff about asking, telling, and showing a character something.

Vehicles

Several new vehicle examples such as riding a horse, flying on a broom, and limiting where you can drive a vehicle.

Check ‘em out. There might be something useful for you.

IF Project – First Draft (Fall 08)

This coming Monday (October 27) is the due date for your first drafts of your IF pieces.

Email me (and Steve) the text of your source code plus your released work by the end of the day. (I’ll explain how to do this during Monday’s class.)
Also make sure you have posted your story and your plot [...]

Riding A Sea Horse

Jessica has asked an interesting question so here is a way to create some form of vehicle that the player can ride: like a horse, a tractor, or even a broom (key terms are in bold):
Include Rideable Vehicles by Graham Nelson.
The Ocean Edge is a room. “The ocean goes further on to the north.”
The sea [...]

Code regarding Vehicles (cars, etc.)

Had a couple requests to implement cars in IF. This uses an object called a “vehicle.”
Look at this code:
The Parking Lot is a room. “Main Street is to the north.”
The Maserati GranTurismo is a vehicle in the parking lot. The description is “Nice. This baby will hit 60 mph in 5.2 seconds and is capable [...]

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