User's Manual

BrailleNote Apex QT User Guide
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19.13 Internet Resources.
Learning about interactive fiction, or text adventures as they are also called, can take a little time
and it may appear confusing at the very beginning. There are many resources on the Internet that
can help you learn how to play, or even how to create your own games. A good starting point is the
web site www.ifarchive.org and this site has been added to your web browser favorites when you
upgraded to the current version of Keysoft.
Two other good sites to learn about playing are:
A Beginners Guide to playing interactive fiction which can be found at
www.microheaven.com/IFGuide/ and The Brass Lantern at http://brasslantern.org/beginners/
If you are interested in writing your own text adventures (in fact any sort of game) you need to learn
about the INFORM compiler, the language used to create the games. Two good web sites for this
are :
The Inform compiler home page - www.inform-fiction.org/
and
A tutorial in creating a game at www.inform-fiction.org/examples/alice.html
The inform compiler is complex and will take many hours to learn to use. This is probably only of
interest to those BrailleNote QT users who have had some experience in programming.