Based on our record, Inform seems to be a lot more popular than TADS. While we know about 39 links to Inform, we've tracked only 2 mentions of TADS. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Hell yeah! Here's some links: Here's a list of worldsim-heavy, huge parser IF games I've compiled myself: https://ifdb.org/playlist?id=5wvcywn58ojmsxqi&type=wishlist Here's the TADS 3 website: https://tads.org/ Here's the adv3Lite and TADS 3 documentation: https://faroutscience.com/adv3lite_docs/ An explanation of adv3lite: https://users.ox.ac.uk/~manc0049/TADSGuide/adv3Lite.htm The TADS 3 compiler:... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
As a learning experience, sure. If you care more about the writing/ game design part, you're probably better off using one of the established systems (Inform, TADS, Twine, etc.). Source: about 3 years ago
Inform 7 is a domain-specific language for creating parser-based works of interactive fiction (i.e. old-school "text adventure games"). It does the heavy lifting of parsing and maintaining the consistency of the world model for the programmer. Source: over 1 year ago
Inform 7 takes this to the extreme, allowing code such as "A distance is a kind of value. 5 miles specifies a distance.". Source: over 1 year ago
Pure parser-based games have become niche, but they are still out there and, like others mentioned, have continued to evolve (see Inform 7). You no longer have to "guess the verb". Source: almost 2 years ago
How will you earn its trust? http://inform7.com. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
Neat. Have you ever seen Inform? http://inform7.com/ Might offer some inspiration on future features. It's a pretty cool language that's been around for a long time and has the same use case. Source: almost 2 years ago
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