The Interactive Fiction Development System Developer's Guide
(outdated, see below)

(by Peer Schaefer, peer@wolldingwacht.de)

This document is not for authors of Interactive Fiction who want to USE a development system to create Interactive Fiction; this document is for programmers who want to create a development system for Interactive Fiction, that is a system that allows authors of Interactive Fiction to write Interactive Fiction. In other words: this document is about writing a system like Inform or TADS (so, we're on a pretty abstract meta-level here, ok?). I have tried to lay down the most important aspects that the developer of a development-system should consider, and the most important pitfalls he should avoid.

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Peer Schaefer's Interactive Fiction Resource Site / URL: www.wolldingwacht.de/if/if-dev-dev-guide.html / Last update: 18th Nov 2003.