The Interactive Fiction Authoring System Developer's Guide

(by Peer Schaefer, peer@wolldingwacht.de)

This document is not for authors of Interactive Fiction who want to USE a development system to create Interactive Fiction; this document is for programmers who want to CREATE a development system for Interactive Fiction, that is a system that allows authors of Interactive Fiction to write Interactive Fiction. In other words: this document is about writing a system like Inform or TADS (so, we're on a pretty abstract meta-level here, ok?). I have tried to lay down the most important aspects that the developer of a development-system should consider, and the most important pitfalls he should avoid.

And here are the downloads of version 0.99 (Nov 2005):

• if-auth-dev-guide.pdf (263kb, document in Adobe's Portable Document Format PDF)
  
• if-auth-dev-guide.html (106kb, document in HTML Format)
  
• if-auth-dev-guide.txt (62kb, document as plain text)
  
• if-auth-dev-guide.html.gz (27kb, document in gziped HTML Format)
  
• if-auth-dev-guide.txt.gz (21kb, document in gziped plain text)
  
• if-auth-dev-guide.ps.gz (157kb, document in gziped PostScript Format)
  
• if-auth-dev-guide.dvi.gz (35kb, document in gziped DVI Format)
  
• if-auth-dev-guide.info.gz (24kb, document in gziped GNU/Info Format)
  

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