Nine-Tenths of the Law (interactive fiction)
This is the source code to "Ninetenths of the Law", an interactive fiction game (or more commonly known as "text adventure".) It was originally written by Jack Welch in 2008 as an entry in that year's IntroComp.
The code is released under the "Creative Commons Attribution - Noncommercial - Share Alike 3.0" license, which you can find in the LICENSE file.
The game is written in the Inform 6 programming language, but has most recently been compiled under the Inform7 IDE version 6M62, which still supports Inform 6.
You can download the compiler and IDE as a single package from http://www.inform7.com
When compiled, the source code produces a bytecode file which can be executed on any implementation of the Z virtual machine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine
The game's source code is in the main.inf file, but also includes auxiliary code from the menus.h file. The uuid.txt is a unique identifier that allows this game to be indexed in interactive fiction databases like ifdb
http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?version=2&id=8ithpr6yhbhhb6fe
- Create a working Inform project from your source tree:
$ git clone URL NineTenths $ cd NineTenths $ mv Ninetenths.inform/ temp.inform/
[...launch Inform, create new project in this dir called 'NineTenths'…]
$ cp temp.inform/Source/story.ni Ninetenths.inform/Source/ $ cp temp.inform/uuid.txt Ninetenths.inform/ $ rm -rf temp.inform/
- Launch the Inform IDE and load the Ninetenths.inform project. The source code should be visible, and it should compile fine. [Make sure that Inform's settings are are set to "Z5" as the target VM.]
WARNING: DO NOT do any version control operations (commit, push, and particularly, pull, update, and merge) while the Inform IDE is still open. When the IDE 'saves', it destroys and recreates the whole Ninetenths.inform/ directory, thus possibly eradicating any changes you may have downloaded.