inform7.com

So, there's a new release of Inform 7, and a new web site.

The entire web site has been redone, and I was responsible for the new extensions section. I won't say it's pretty (I'm working on it), and it still doesn't have quite all the features of the old site (the RSS feed should be available by this weekend), but there is an important new feature: you can now browse both the documentation and the source for all I7 extensions on-line. Here's Intelligent Hinting by Aaron Reed, for example.

Judith

Judith is Terry Cavanagh's latest game, and this time he collaborated with Stephen Lavelle.

It's another one of his experimental story-telling games, which are my favorite. I played the game about ten minutes after it was released and about an hour after that I was writing up a long analysis of it.

I was thinking of posting it here, on my blog, but instead I decided to put it on the intfiction.org Interactive Fiction forums, because I'd rather have a conversation about the game than try to assert things about it in an exposition on my blog. Still, it's a rather wankery academic post, but my intentions are good.

(By the way, intfiction.org is having some problems with spam lately; try to be careful and don't click on any dodgy-looking topics, since they may contain rather explicit porn spam).