Would Inform 6 nowadays be still the language of choice for developing text based games like Zork? Or even a reasonable choice for that matter?

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svachalek 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's still pretty good. TADS is a more modern alternative, and the one I would go with, but basically these haven't been commercially viable products since the 80s so there's not a lot going into it.

Arguably, the right answer now is to document everything that matters to you about the adventure, and tell an LLM to run it.

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m463 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I wonder if you could make a "choose-your-own-adventure" book uning LLMs.

It would write the book ahead of you, kind of like how railroads could send trains with supplies out to the track as it was built.

	▲	taormina an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Like with any LLM produced project, can you? Sure. Will it be engaging, well written or consistent? Almost certainly not.

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dwheeler 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think Inform 7 is pretty cool. I suggest checking in to that as well.

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anthk 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, very easy to grasp and games will be much lighter than Inform7. Tads it's propietary even if the interpreters are free. Inform6 has the whole stack (even free documentation too), from Inform Beginner's Guide to these, where you have libre games for Inform6 and some free as in freedom related documentation of Inform6 internals.

https://jxself.org/git/