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by mycroftiv 1518 days ago
I'm happy and excited to see this happen, I have used Inform 6 in Plan 9 for interactive fiction development for years now, and with Inform 7 becoming open, I'm hoping the core compilation pipeline can be ported, reading source code for games like Counterfeit Monkey by Emily Short is quite amazing.
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We need more libre IF games written in Inform6/7 too. If so, a lot of games could be translated and enhanced from Spanish to English back and forth. And viceversa. I can read Anchorhead with patience, but in Spanish would be amazing (and in my native language the prose can be obviously as good as in English).

Also, Anchorhead had ben expanded and the author got a nice chunk of sales with that release. Why should the free version stay as freeware? People would have that game in any Linux/BSDdistro and still pay for the images-enhanced one as Lovecraft themes with proper media it's a huge boost for inmersion.