Playfic - a platform for writing and playing interactive fiction.

playfic.com

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Hey, I made this! It's a community for writing, sharing, and playing interactive fiction games (aka "text adventures") entirely from your browser, using a "natural language"-inspired language called Inform 7.

Inform 7, if you're not familiar with it, is a bizarre world-modeling language that's modeled on declarative English sentences. You can view the game source to see what I mean, or look at examples in the recipe book: http://inform7.com/learn/man/Rchap3.html

I wrote more about the site, along with some screenshots, over here: http://waxy.org/2012/02/introducing_playfic/

My intention was to mention You and Cooper McHatton but Hacker News have the title limited to 80 characters. Also, such a cool site! I'm planning to write something as soon as I get some free time.

Cool site. When I'm playing a game in FF 10.0.1, the text does not autoscroll up when the text fills the game window. I have to manually scroll it up after every command to see what the response was and to type my next command. Can you fix that?

Definitely, this is at the top of my todo list.

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