New Digital Antiquarian post about the early IF community that I got involved with in the mid-90s. Featuring @kevinwilson42.bsky.social as he starts IFComp! www.filfre.net/2024/11/retr... - ThreadSky

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eblong.com • 118 days ago

New Digital Antiquarian post about the early IF community that I got involved with in the mid-90s.

Featuring @kevinwilson42.bsky.social as he starts IFComp!

https://www.filfre.net/2024/11/retro-no-more-interactive-fiction-of-the-early-comp-era/

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gwembel.com•118 days ago

Thanks for all your contributions! I'm a fan of your Spider and Web. Graham Nelson's Curses inspired me to explore IF after Infocom-Zork, and Michael J Roberts was very kind to me when I worked with his TADS system. I haven't explored Inform 7 but the natural language code seems intriguing.

eblong.com•118 days ago

Thanks! I've got Inform 7 open (for a game-jam project) right now...

gwembel.com•118 days ago

Cool!

kevinwilson42.bsky.social•118 days ago

Jimmy gives me too much credit in there, but it was a fun read. Laird absolutely drove the outreach from Activision rather than me, along with the Zork game. I was just hired onto that to help out with the coding, and specifically learned inform for the purpose.

kevinwilson42.bsky.social•118 days ago

I seem to vaguely recall that Graham rush fixed some kind of issue I was having in inform, too. Maybe it was using a number as part of an object name? Can't quite remember, as it's been quite awhile.

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