{"id":5,"date":"2006-08-17T10:26:46","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T14:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2007-06-01T12:28:48","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T17:28:48","slug":"you-are-in-a-maze-of-twisty-little-passages-all-alike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"You Are in a Maze of Twisty Little Passages, All Alike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inform-fiction.org\/\">Inform<\/a> is a program that helps you write &#8220;interactive fiction,&#8221; a la Zork.  (For you whippersnappers who&#8217;ve never heard of Zork, here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zork\">Wikipedia entry<\/a> about it.  Kids today, with your fancy-schmancy <em>graphics<\/em> and your abundance of CPU cycles.  In my day, all we had were a brass lantern and an Elvish sword, and we couldn&#8217;t even <em>see<\/em> them.)<P>Uh, heh.  Anyway, Inform.  Maybe somebody with too much time on their hands can write an O*W*C-based adventure.<P><a href=\"http:\/\/inform-fiction.org\/\">Link<\/a> <I>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/\">Lileks<\/a>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inform is a program that helps you write &#8220;interactive fiction,&#8221; a la Zork. (For you whippersnappers who&#8217;ve never heard of Zork, here&#8217;s the Wikipedia entry about it. Kids today, with your fancy-schmancy graphics and your abundance of CPU cycles. In my day, all we had were a brass lantern and an Elvish sword, and we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}