Editing Inform (section)

=== Notable games written in Inform 7 ===

''Mystery House Possessed'' (2005), by [[Emily Short]],<ref name="turbulence">{{cite web
  | url        = http://www.turbulence.org/Works/mystery/games.php
  | title        = Mystery House Taken Over
  | access-date        = 2007-01-04
  | archive-date        = May 4, 2006
  | archive-url        = https://web.archive.org/web/20060504184514/http://turbulence.org/Works/mystery/games.php
  | url-status        = dead
  }}</ref> was the first Inform 7 game released to be public. It was released as part of the "Mystery House Taken Over" project.

On March 1, 2006, Short announced the release of three further games:<ref name="raif-games">{{cite newsgroup
  | title      = Three games in Inform 7
  | author     = Emily Short (at the request of Graham Nelson)
  | date       = 2006-03-01
  | newsgroup  = rec.games.int-fiction
  | message-id = 1141259182.610660.185360@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com
  | url        = https://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.int-fiction/msg/354c7965c0dea5d6
  | access-date = 2007-01-04
  }}</ref>
''Bronze''<ref name="bronze">{{cite web
  | url        = http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=9p8kh3im2j9h2881
  | title      = Bronze
  | access-date = 2007-01-04
  | year       = 2006
  | last       = Short
  | first      = Emily
  }}</ref> (an example of a traditional puzzle-intensive game) and ''Damnatio Memoriae''<ref name="damn">{{cite web
  | url        = http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=2103dabhxzxsraal
  | title      = Damnatio Memoriae
  | access-date = 2007-01-04
  | year       = 2006
  | last       = Short
  | first      = Emily
  }}</ref> (a follow-up to her award-winning Inform 6 game ''[[Savoir-Faire]]'') were joined by Graham Nelson's ''The Reliques of Tolti-Aph''<ref name="reliques">{{cite web
  | url        = http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=nnhm4yp172oivtd9
  | title      = The Reliques of Tolti-Aph
  | access-date = 2007-01-04
  | year       = 2005
  | last       = Nelson
  | first      = Graham
  }}</ref> (2006). When the Inform 7 public beta was announced on April 30, 2006, six "worked examples" of medium to large scale works were made available along with their source code, including the three games previously released on March 1.<ref name="bronze-ex">{{cite web
 |url         = http://inform-fiction.org/I7Downloads/Examples/bronze/
 |title       = Bronze
 |access-date  = 2007-01-04
 |year        = 2006
 |last        = Short
 |first       = Emily
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20070210003932/http://inform-fiction.org/I7Downloads/Examples/bronze/
 |archive-date = February 10, 2007
 |df          = mdy-all
}}</ref><ref name="damn-ex">{{cite web
 |url         = http://inform-fiction.org/I7Downloads/Examples/dm/
 |title       = Damnatio Memoriae
 |access-date  = 2007-01-04
 |year        = 2006
 |last        = Short
 |first       = Emily
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20061212185900/http://inform-fiction.org/I7Downloads/Examples/dm/
 |archive-date = December 12, 2006
 |df          = mdy-all
}}</ref><ref name="reliques-ex">{{cite web
 |url         = http://www.inform-fiction.org/I7Downloads/Examples/rota/
 |title       = The Reliques of Tolti-Aph
 |access-date  = 2007-01-04
 |year        = 2005
 |last        = Nelson
 |first       = Graham
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20070206202522/http://inform-fiction.org/I7Downloads/Examples/rota/
 |archive-date = February 6, 2007
 |df          = mdy-all
}}</ref>

Emily Short's ''[[Floatpoint]]'' was the first Inform 7 game to take first place in the [[Interactive Fiction Competition]].<ref>{{cite web
  | url        = http://www.ifcomp.org/comp06/
  | title      = 12th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition
  | access-date = 2007-05-12
  | year       = 2006
  }}</ref>
It also won 2006 [[XYZZY Award]]s for Best Setting and Best NPCs.<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.xyzzynews.com/2006winners.html 
 |title=XYZZY Awards: Winning Games of 2006 
 |access-date=2007-05-12 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070515062751/http://www.xyzzynews.com/2006winners.html 
 |archive-date=May 15, 2007 
 |df=mdy-all 
}}</ref> ''[[Rendition (text adventure game)|Rendition]]'', by nespresso (2007), is a [[experimental literature|political art experiment]] in the form of a text adventure game. Its approach to [[tragedy]] has been discussed academically by both the [[Association for Computing Machinery]]<ref>{{cite web
  | url   = http://www.natematias.com/cam/trag-elit/Emily-Short-Tragedy.pdf
  | title = ACM Hypertext 2007 conference slides (PDF)
  }}</ref> and [[Cambridge University]].<ref>{{cite web
  | url   = http://www.natematias.com/cam/trag-elit/TragPresentation.html
  | title = Cambridge University lecture slides
  }}</ref>{{bsn|reason=This is a Flash file. Modern browsers can't cope with Flash. Also this citation is inadequate: who exactly at the university? What was the title?|date=December 2024}}