| Writing with Inform |


Chapter 1. 0Welcome to Inform


Chapter 2. 0The Source Text


Chapter 3. 0Things


Chapter 4. 0Kinds


Chapter 5. 0Text


Chapter 6. 0Descriptions


Chapter 7. 0Basic Actions


Chapter 8. 0Change


Chapter 9. 0Time


Chapter 10. Scenes


Chapter 11. Phrases


Chapter 12. Advanced Actions


Chapter 13. Relations


Chapter 14. Numbers and Equations


Chapter 15. Tables


Chapter 16. Understanding


Chapter 17. Activities


017.1. What are activities?


017.2. How activities work


017.3. Rules applied to activities


017.4. While clauses


017.5. New activities


017.6. Activity variables


017.7. Beginning and ending activities manually


017.8. Introduction to the list of built-in activities


017.9. Deciding the concealed possessions of something


17.10. Printing the name of something


17.11. Printing the plural name of something


17.12. Printing a number of something


17.13. Listing contents of something


17.14. Grouping together something


17.15. Printing room description details of something


17.16. Printing a refusal to act in the dark


17.17. Printing the announcement of darkness


17.18. Printing the announcement of light


17.19. Printing the name of a dark room


17.20. Printing the description of a dark room


17.21. Constructing the status line


17.22. Writing a paragraph about


17.23. Listing nondescript items of something


17.24. Printing the locale description of something


17.25. Choosing notable locale objects for something


17.26. Printing a locale paragraph about


17.27. Deciding the scope of something


17.28. Clarifying the parser's choice of something


17.29. Asking which do you mean


17.30. Supplying a missing noun/second noun


17.31. Reading a command


17.32. Implicitly taking something


17.33. Printing a parser error


17.34. Deciding whether all includes


17.35. Printing the banner text


17.36. Printing the player's obituary


17.37. Amusing a victorious player


17.38. Starting the virtual machine


17.39. Review of Chapter 17: Activities


Chapter 18. Rulebooks


Chapter 19. Advanced Text


Chapter 20. Lists


Chapter 21. Advanced Phrases


Chapter 22. Figures, Sounds and Files


Chapter 23. Releasing


Chapter 24. Publishing


Chapter 25. Extensions


Chapter 26. What's New in Inform?


Alphabetical Index of Examples

Numerical Index of Examples
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