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Inform is the most direct descendant of Zork. It was inspired by the work of Infocom, a company founded by most of the authors of the MIT Zork. Folks especially
by kevinmchugh 6y ago
Inform is the most direct descendant of Zork. It was inspired by the work of Infocom, a company founded by most of the authors of the MIT Zork. Folks especially enamored of Zork should start there. Inform has some support for displaying images.
- metroholografix 6y agoInform is not a descendant of Zork, it has no connection to it besides producing output files in ZMachine / Z-Code format, which is well-specified so that anyone can write a generator. As far as programming the actual story goes, it's an independent implementation based on entirely different principles (Zork was written in MDL which was a Lisp).