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Compare the source of a game in Dialog: http://www.linusakesson.net/dialog/cloak/cloak-rel1.dg http://www.linusakesson.net/dialog/cloak/cloak-rel1.dg With the
by egypturnash 7y ago
Compare the source of a game in Dialog: http://www.linusakesson.net/dialog/cloak/cloak-rel1.dg http://www.linusakesson.net/dialog/cloak/cloak-rel1.dg
With the source of a game in Inform 7:
http://inform7.com/learn/eg/bronze/source.html http://inform7.com/learn/eg/bronze/source.html
One of these looks much more like a programming language than the other; both compile to the Infocom virtual machine (or a direct descendant of it), both create Infocom-style Interactive Fiction rather than the choose-your-own-adventure style of Twine or ChoiceScript.
- thrower123 7y agoDialog looks much more like a LISPy version of Inform 6
- WorldMaker 7y agoWhich is interestingly appropriate given the original Zork Implementation Language (ZIL) and its LISPiness (forked from MDL). Dialog doesn't look that far off from ZIL.