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"A system for creating Choose Your Own Adventure style programs, with advanced features."

"Allows us to write rules that happen after an action fails, such as 'After not examining or searching something'"

This extension replaces the Inform 6 lighting code with an Inform 7 version. In essence, it replaces the condition "object has light" in the Inform 6 templates with a call to an Inform 7 rulebook. If you don't want the overhead for a particular object, you can declare it to be "not specially lighted".

"Refactors the Startup Rules so that it can be more easily altered"

"This is just a (no longer) little extension to handle weapons and fighting."

"Fixes for two small bugs with indefinite articles."

"An extension to automatically draw a map."

"Translation in italian of Version 4/140513 of Automap by Mark Tilford. An extension to automatically draw a map."

"Allows the author to set hyperlinks in the main window and give instructions about what is to result from performing them."

"Allows the author to incorporate Glulx real time events into an Inform 7 project."

"A general purpose benchmarking test framework that produces statistically significant results. Version 2 works with 6M62."

"Better performance for the Flex/Block value systems using Glulx's native malloc features"

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"Provides a complex system for customzing the printed descriptions of characters wearing or carrying lots of stuff, similar to the room description system in Standard Rules. Requires Large Game Speedup by Nathanael Nerode."

"A method of using assertions stored in a table to verify your game works as expected."

"A simple fix to preserve casing when the player's command is altered."

"A simple way to preload input onto the command line before the player begins to type."

"Creates a situation without a command prompt where the player may simply press space or enter to WAIT. But if the player instead begins to type a command, the command prompt will then appear."

"Support for creating 'unit tests' that run a series of commands and make assertions about the output of some of them."

"Displays a list of common parser commands in a sidebar as a reference for novice players. Includes actions to turn the sidebar off and on. Story author can tailor the command list and the appearance of the sidebar, or just plug and play. For version 6L or 6M of Inform 7."

"Responds to attempts to interact with unimplemented clothing, body parts, or generic surroundings. Requires Smarter Parser by Aaron Reed."

"Report parsing errors to the player when ordering other characters to do things. Inform 7 normally redirects these errors to 'answer <topic>' so that the character can respond to arbitrary statements. But in an story with compliant characters who the player orders around routinely, that is frustrating to a player who has made a typo; this helps out the player. Requires Parser Error Number Bugfix and version 4 of Neutral Standard Responses. Tested with Inform 6M62."

"An extension to consolidate action reports when performing an action on multiple objects, such as with 'take all'. Requires Hypothetical Questions by Jesse McGrew. Version 3 updated by Emily Short for 6L38 compatibility."

"An interactive question-and-answer system for building conversations."

"A simple change to the Standard Rules to allow conversation to work without a touchable noun."

"A framework for customizing banner and version output. For 6M62."

"When a player types a standard direction in response to a disambiguation question, assume they meant to go that direction, not answer the question."

"Allows finer control over the disambiguation process used by Inform to decide what the player was referring to. Less guesswork, more questions asking for more input. Also removes the multiple-object-rejection in favour of asking for more information."

"Provides the ability to create new objects during game play."

"Provides a way to change the capacity of a table during the game."

"Adds a new hook into the parser, to edit a blank command before analyzing it."

"Various tweaks to understand additional variations of commands and have cleverer, more specific error messages in common failure cases."

"More control over what is printed in a banner, including an easily-included copyright line."

"Exposes the Glk windows system so authors can completely control the creation and use of windows"

"More broad-minded English language gender/number model where male, female, and neuter are three separate true-false properties. Allows for objects to respond to any specified combination of HE, SHE, IT, and THEY. As fast as the Standard Rules. Tested with Inform 6M62."

"When using Gender Options, clean up some I6 internals with functions related to gender which are irrelevant to English or rendered obsolete with Gender Options. Since these are called in the depths of ListWriter this should slightly improve speed. Not included in Gender Options due to likely interference with other extensions. Requires Gender Options. Probably will not work with non-English languages. Tested with Inform 6M62."

"Provides a 'track'-based system for independent animation of graphic elements, canvases, and windows. Features animation presets, automated easing/tweening, and a detailed debugging log."

"A framework for drawing graphics of various types--from sprite images to painted text--to a Glulx graphics window. Takes an object-oriented approach, with graphic elements represented as individual objects."

"Provides commands for displaying images, shape primitives (such as rectangles, boxes, and lines), user-specified bitmap drawings, image maps, and for text-painting using 'fonts' with glyphs composed of either bitmaps or image files."

"Allows us to identify any number of rectangular areas of a Glulx graphic window as 'hotlinked'. When the player clicks within one of these zones, a command will be entered on behalf of the player, or we can specify some appropriate response of our own."

"Provides a mechanism to 'suspend' line and character inputs in progress to allow something to be printed, and then input resumed afterwards."

"Allows the author to set hyperlinks in the Simple Graphical Window and give instructions about what is to result from performing them."

"Provides support for an image-based map with a static background and icons for the player and optionally other things or doors."

"Provides a simple way to hide the command prompt during long stretches of text."

"Provides a choice-based interface that can be freely switched between interactive and non-interactive modes. Basically, it does CYOA."

"Provides a framework to allow multiple hyperlink-processing extensions to co-exist without stepping on each others' toes."

"Provides a core processing loop for hyperlinks. This is a basic interface intended to be used by other extensions rather than directly in stories."

"Allows us to test the consequences of a phrase or action without permanently changing the game state."

Indefinite Article Substitution Fix (for Glulx only, at present) is intended to fix a bug in the interaction of indefinite articles with text substitutions.

"Handles undo using external files for very big story files"

"This small extension eliminates the three newlines printed before the banner. It also provides a tool to attempt to place the cursor at the bottom of the screen, like old Infocom games. Due to wild variance between interpreters, it is not reliable.".

"Provides a simple HTML-inspired syntax for adding hyperlinks within any say phrases."

"Phrases for testing, as far as is possible, which interpreter the story is running under."

"To make Italian the language of play. Heavily based on code written by Massimo Stella. Now maintained by Leonardo Boselli. Requires 'Text Capture' by Eric Eve."

"Provides support for parsing and generating JSON"

"Performance improvements for games with large numbers of objects, by avoiding looping over all objects."

"Basic support for sources of liquids and things that can hold a liquid, more minimalist than Liquid Handling by Al Golden."

"List utility functions"

"Allows the author to set per-room images and show these as the player moves from room to room. Requires Simple Graphical Window by Emily Short."

Inform 7 allows the connections between rooms to be modified during play, but doors never change. This extension makes doors as versatile as rooms.

"Allows the author to define a mood value for characters and then use text substitutions such as '[when bored]The king fidgets on his throne[or sleepy]The king snores[at other times]The king grins[end when].' Moods will be interpreted in 'writing a paragraph' and similar contexts as the mood of the person described in the paragraph, but at other times according to the mood of the person to whom the player is currently speaking."

"Change the default values of the properties of Mutable Kinds at run-time"

"Miscellaneous stuff I like to have built in when debugging and programming, but would never want to relase."

"Replaces misleading, vague, and narratively-voiced parser messages with instructive, clarifying, and neutral versions, respectively. For Inform 6M62."

"The ability to treat object kinds as values."

"Support for getting the matched object when matching a snippet against a pattern and for disabling clarification when a command or snippet is ambiguous."

"Says where the parser ceased understanding a command, and describes ways the dictionary does know how to use that verb. Tested on 6M62."

"Fixes a nasty bug in the I7 error names in Inform 7 version 6M62 (and probably earlier)."

"We may ask the time when (a description of scenes) began/ended; the number of turns since (a description of scenes) began/ended; if (a future event) is soon; the time/turns until (a future event); the time/turns when (a future event). We may also un-schedule a future event with 'never shall'; begin or end a scene on an event; say a time 'as a time period'; repeat through future events; and change the turns-to-minutes ratio with 'per'."

"Adds basic typo correction by checking the first few letters of misunderstood input against the printed names of nearby objects. Requires version 15 of Smarter Parser by Aaron Reed. Supports Scope Caching by Mike Ciul for faster performance."

"'Printing the name' rules make TWO passes over the same object when Inform needs to determine the appropriate article to print. This is a non-issue for many rules, but 'printing the name' rules with side effects may need to know which stage is currently being processed (article-choosing or name-printing), so that they can avoid double-execution of any side effects."

"An extension to Reactable Quips to allow for more traditional menu-based conversation."

"A way to create and extend a game world on the fly during testing via a REPL idiom."

"A table-based approach to NPC conversation chains, as well as allowing rules to fire on lines of conversation."

"Allows the author to get the real-world time and date from the player's computer."

"Replaces 'You can't see any such thing' for a seen but out-of-scope noun with a message acknowledging that the parser recognizes the object. With Glulx, also keeps track of where the player last saw that object."

"Replaces 'You can't see any such thing' for a seen but out-of-scope noun with a message acknowledging that the parser recognizes the object. With Glulx, also keeps track of where the player last saw that object."

Responsive Disambiguation is a plug-and-play extension; it should have its desired effect merely by including it.

"Allows us to erase then rewrite the commands our player types in."

"Fixes some issues in Standard Rules related to printing room descriptions with enterable supporters. Experimental."

This utility extension allows players to define replacements to alter their own commands. It does not affect the world model or the game itself in any way, only the user interface.

This extensions loops over all the rooms in your games and tries examining words in the room description to see how the game responds. This is designed to catch words players expect to be able to examine, but cannot due to author oversight.

"An extension to allow scheduling of activities. For 6M62"

"The ability to toggle objects' scopability; the parser does not acknowledge the existence of unscopable objects, even if they are explicitly added to scope."

"Gives things the 'marked visible' property, to check the visibility of something without repeating the entire scope loop each time. Works with Epistemology by Eric Eve, Conditional Backdrops by Mike Ciul, and Remembering by Aaron Reed."

"Provides a graphics window in one part of the screen, in which the author can place images; with provision for scaling, tiling, or centering images automatically. Glulx only."

"Provides a graphics window in one part of the screen, in which the author can place images; with provision for scaling, tiling, or centering images automatically, as well as setting a background color. Glulx only. Modified because of changes in 6L38 release."

"Provides an HTML window in the left part of the screen, in which the player may write anything. Glulx only."

"Understands a broader range of input than the standard parser, and can direct new players towards proper syntax."

"To make Spanish the language of play."

"A system for precomputing slow startup code"

"Provides information about the substrate that a story is executing on."

"Repeat variants for: until loop; loop counting down over a numeric or enumerated value range; loop n times. For any loop, optionally assign a loop counter variable; for looping through tables optionally assign a row number variable. Allows more flexible syntax for the existing repeat loops. For 6M62."

"Exposes the snippets referring to each noun."

"Provides the Supercredits command to list the complete list of extension credits (i.e., including those that use authorial modesty) alphabetized by author name then extension name, and formatted nicely. The whole extension is marked Not for Release. For 6M62."

"Personal extension to keep the main source text clean."

"A switch statement. Tested with 6M62."

"For commands with tabs in them, replaces tabs with spaces before passing them on to the game."

"Flexible framework to define and display text boxes. For 6M62."

"Loop through characters, words, lines, or paragraphs in a text."

"Text utility functions."

"In addition to allowing control over UNDO default messages, provides hooks into UNDO processing, including multiple ways to suspend UNDO temporarily, to place limitations on UNDO (such as allowing only one UNDO in a row), to undo the current turn from code, and to control when the game state is saved. Using the latter, we can effectively control which turn UNDO returns us to. Also allows changing the words which invoke UNDO and OOPS. Also allows the story to edit a blank command before analyzing it. Updated to Inform 6M62."

"Provides hooks into UNDO processing, including multiple ways to suspend UNDO temporarily, to place limitations on UNDO (such as allowing only one UNDO in a row), to undo the current turn from code, and to control when the game state is saved. Using the latter, we can effectively control which turn UNDO returns us to. Also allows changing the words which invoke UNDO and OOPS, and allows the story to edit a blank command before analyzing it. Updated to Inform 6M62."

"Experimental support for reading and writing external files that may include characters longer than a byte. For 6M62."

Unified Glulx Input is an attempt to tidy up all the messy I6 APIs that you need to customize your game's input system.

"For unit testing. Tested with 6M62."

This extension provides you with testing commands for force opening things. The commands are all in sections marked as "not for release" - this is intended to be a tool during development and test, not for actual games.

"I7's line number phrase returns lines with left and right whitespace trimmed; other than using regexps, there isn't a built-in means to access the raw untrimmed line. This adds an ``untrimmed line number`` phrase."

"Provides a 'verbs' command to output known verbs, a 'conjugate' command to demonstrate the conjugation of a given verb, and a 'meaning' command to report whether a verb is for saying only, means a property or what relationship it means if it means a relationship. The whole extension is marked Not for Release. For 6M62."

"Provides a phrase that, given a text, returns a corresponding verb if it exists. For 6M62."

"Allow certain things in adjacent rooms to be examined."

"Containers and actor that limit their contents by volume. Modeled after Bulk Limiter by Eric Eve, but understands length, width, and height as well as total size."

"Core functionality of Vorple, including JavaScript evaluation and adding HTML elements."

"Manually triggering parser commands, changing the contents of the command prompt and manipulating the command history."

"Adding, removing, hiding, moving and other basic manipulation of HTML document elements."

"Hyperlinks that either open a web site, execute a parser command or evaluate JavaScript code."

"Modal windows are dialog prompts or other information windows that pop up on top of the play area and require user action to dismiss."

"Displaying images and playing sounds and music."

"Notifications that display a short message on the screen and disappear after a few seconds."

"Vorple equivalent of Basic Screen Effects by Emily Short. Waiting for a keypress, clearing the screen, aligning, styling and coloring text."

"The Vorple version of the standard status line."

"Tooltips that can be activated on request or when the mouse cursor is moved over an element."

"Allows Inform 7's random number generator to be replaced with one that is consistent across all interpreters"