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A few months back, I talked about poking around with Inform 7 and working on an Agent Patriot text adventure. I realized recently that I’m not going to come back around to this — I just have too many other projects going on to give this the attention it deserves. I learned a lot from working on it, but after repeatedly banging my head into walls with trying to get the system to do what I wanted, I’ve decided to abandon the project.

However, since the Agent Patriot universe is open under Creative Commons, I’m going to throw my cobbled-together code out to the Internet, in case anyone else wanted to pick up the project (or at least see how horribly I botched it). You can download it from my Dropbox account here:

Agent Patriot I — Blitzkrieg: New Amsterdam

I also used Inform 7 to test out some of my initial ideas for Whitechapel. People really interested in the minutae of my process can check out the Inform 7 files for that project as well:

The Whitechapel Project

You will need to download Inform 7 to use either of these files. You should beable to just expand them, move the folders to Inform 7′s "Projects" folder, and open the project in Inform 7.

There’s a chance I might flirt with Inform 7 down the road, but I think I’ll approach it with a story that’s actually suited for the medium, instead of trying to work an existing piece of fiction into the IF format.