Tag: PunyInform

PunyJam #4: Text Adventure Creation with PunyInform

PunyJam #4 has kicked off, providing a platform for text adventure enthusiasts to showcase their creativity. Hosted by Space Hobo, fredrikr, and johanberntsson, this jam challenges participants to craft engaging text adventures using PunyInform, a powerful and easy to use library built on the foundation of Inform 6. Key Details The Theme: Unraveling the Unknown In line with the spirit of interactive storytelling, participants are tasked with incorporating a particular theme into their games. At the beginning of each game…

PunyInform 5.1: Crafting Text Adventures with Enhanced Features

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The interactive fiction and text adventure game development community have a lot to celebrate with the recent release of PunyInform version 5.1 by Fredrik Ramsberg. PunyInform, a library designed for creating captivating text adventures for the Z-machine virtual machine, has evolved with notable enhancements and features. PunyInform is a full fledged development library, crafted in Inform 6, empowers developers and storytellers to fashion text adventure games and interactive fiction experiences. These games can be relished not only on modern platforms…

Puny Inform 5.0 Released

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From Fredrik Ramsberg: PunyInform v5.0 is out! Some highlights: We try to avoid breaking changes in PunyInform, but every once in a while we feel the benefit makes it worth it. When this happens, we typically increase the major version number, like now. This version does have some breaking changes – be sure to read the notes on upgrading in the release notes! https://github.com/johanberntsson/PunyInform/releases

PunyInform 4.7 Released

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Fredrik Ramsberg has announced the latest release of his PunyInform library for writing z-machine adventure games for 8-Bit platforms as well as modern platforms. Based originally on the Inform 6 library, PunyInform provides an easy to use method of writing adventure games which can then be compiled into z3, z5 and z8 formats. According to the release notes, PunyInform version 4.7 includes the following changes and updates: If you intend to use the PunyInform Library and compile, you will need…

PunyInform 3.3 Released

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The latest version of the PinyInform Library has been released. Punyform 3.3 includes host of changes and bug fixes including the following items: Changes in functionality: Implemented ChooseObjects entry point routine. Added a ‘score’ verb for games with no score, which just prints a message saying there is no score in this game. Added an example of how to add random comments to a game (howto/comments.inf). Changed so that NPCs can’t use wildcards, such as “take all” (This was deemed…