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by Keeeeeeeks 81 days ago
This looks nice! Would love to integrate it into an intfic project I'm working on: storyloom-weld.vercel.app

How would you say this is inspired by, and compares to, writing in literate programming languages like Inform 7?

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I like how Loreline transpiles to multiple languages. I wonder why a transpire to Inform 6 or Inform 7 has not already been done as it seems an easy conceptual leap. Perhaps I don’t fully understand the use cases here.
This seems more like Twine than Inform. Inform is for parser fic, where you enter commands ("get key", "go north", "open door"), Twine and this are for choice-based fiction.
It’s closer to Ink or Yarn Spinner (or to some extent Twine). Loreline isn’t doing any user text parsing, but is pretty good to manage branching dialogues and choices.