NaNoWriMo Text Adventures

[squirmelia]

NaNoWriMo starts soon, and as I've been reading Twisty Little Passages, I'm vaguely contemplating writing some kind of interactive fiction/text adventure type thing for it.

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[notlosers.livejournal.com]

This is genius. I've been following Emily Short (http://emshort.wordpress.com/) lately, quietly getting inspired to do something similar, but I hadn't considered doing it for NaNo.

What would you write it in? I don't think I've got the patience to write my own parser; there seem to be a couple of choices out there, but none look wholly satisfactory. I'd want the end result to be fully playable in a browser.

[kevandotorg.livejournal.com]

It was years overdue, but you can now easily play any .z5 Inform adventure online through Parchment (http://code.google.com/p/parchment/). (There are also some Java (http://zmpp.sourceforge.net/) and Flash (http://www.bespokerealities.com/Flaxo.html) interpreters out there, if you want something a bit swisher to embed on your website.)

[notlosers.livejournal.com]

That's very cool indeed. Thanks! Now I just have to go and learn Inform :)