In interactive storytelling we learned about as much as anyone who has ever read a story, but we did get introduced to a program called Inform 7 that is free to download. It is meant to be a program for writers to just be able to tell a story and make it interactive without having to know programming. THIS IS INCORRECT! You don't have to know a legit programming language, you just have to learn to write how Inform wants you to, which is basically learning a computer language. I had an infuriatingly frustrating time writing my story, but it was worth it when I let my friends beta test it to find all the kinks. It took me a while to find a place to post it, but now I have and here's the link:
Colonist Interactive Fiction Game
The play in browser button is in the top right hand corner of the browser labeled Play Online, above the Show Me How button. The game is about a colony ship that has crash landed, leaving you as a sole survivor trying to escape. There are nine different endings and one easter egg so feel free to try it a few times. Good Luck!
Hi, Andy. I wanted to let you know the ClubFloyd played this game today, and that the transcript of our session has been posted here:
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Read the whole thing, because while we started out making some potentially over-harsh comments, we stuck with the game through to the end and all agreed that we warmed up to it. If nothing else, it's a good transcript to use if you're seriously considering a second installment in the series—which I hope you do.
All three of us that played left ratings at IFDB as well, and two of us wrote small reviews.
Good work! This was great for a first use of Inform. You're spot on about how it's a programming language and not meant for writers to just be able to tell a story. I'm glad you stuck with it and released this. Best of luck in your future interactive fiction endeavors.