com.inform7.IDE.appdata.xml

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<component type="desktop-application">
  <id>com.inform7.IDE</id>
  <metadata_license>CC0-1.0</metadata_license>
  <project_license>GPL-3.0 AND Artistic-2.0</project_license>
  <content_rating type="oars-1.0" />
  <name>Inform</name>
  <summary>Write interactive fiction</summary>
  <developer id="com.inform7">
    <name>Graham Nelson et al.</name>
  </developer>
  <keywords>
    <keyword translate="no">IDE</keyword>
    <keyword>interactive fiction</keyword>
    <keyword translate="no">inform</keyword>
    <keyword>development</keyword>
  </keywords>
  <description>
    <p>
      Official development environment for Inform, a programming language for
      creating interactive fiction, using natural language syntax.
      Using natural language and drawing on ideas from linguistics and from
      literate programming, Inform is widely used as a medium for literary
      writing, as a prototyping tool in the games industry, and in education, both
      at school and university level (where Inform is often assigned material for
      courses on digital narrative).
    </p>
    <p>
      The Inform project was created by Graham Nelson in 1993 and first came to
      the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop in 1995, and is now available as an app.
      It combines the core Inform software with full documentation, including two
      books and nearly 500 fully working examples. Connecting to the Inform website,
      it can automatically download and update extensions from a fully curated Public
      Library used by the world-wide Inform community. The app offers richly detailed
      indexing of projects and scales from tiny fictions like "Kate is a woman in the
      Research Lab" right up to enormous imaginary worlds whose source text runs to
      over 3 million words. Features for automated testing, packaging and releasing
      round out a fully-featured development environment for IF.
    </p>
    <p>
      Inform is free, with no strings attached. What you make with it is yours, to
      publish on your website, sell, or give to your friends. There's a vibrant community
      of users who welcome newcomers (and the app will help you find a high-traffic forum
      for discussions). Lastly, Inform is continuously maintained and developed. All bug
      reports are examined and acted on (and the app will show you how to post them).
    </p>
  </description>
  <launchable type="desktop-id">com.inform7.IDE.desktop</launchable>
  <screenshots>
    <screenshot type="default">
      <caption>Writing with Inform: Source and Documentation</caption>
      <image>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ptomato/inform7-ide/main/pixmaps/screenshots/source.png</image>
    </screenshot>
    <screenshot>
      <caption>Testing tools: Skein and Transcript</caption>
      <image>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ptomato/inform7-ide/main/pixmaps/screenshots/skein.png</image>
    </screenshot>
    <screenshot>
      <caption>Welcome to Inform!</caption>
      <image>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ptomato/inform7-ide/main/pixmaps/screenshots/welcome.png</image>
    </screenshot>
  </screenshots>
  <url type="homepage">https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/</url>
  <url type="bugtracker">https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/bugs/</url>
  <url type="help">https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/doc/</url>
  <url type="donation">https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/donate/</url>
  <url type="vcs-browser">https://github.com/ptomato/inform7-ide/</url>
  <url type="contribute">https://github.com/ganelson/inform/</url>
  <url type="translate">https://explore.transifex.com/ptomato/inform7-ide/</url>
  <releases>
    <release version="2.0.0" date="2022-09-03">
      <description>
        <p>
          Long-awaited 2.0.0 release, corresponding to Inform 10.1.2.
        </p>
        <p>
          Inform 10.1.2 was released on August 31st 2022, with changes to the build manager
          to fix sandboxing issues on Linux that prevented the building and publishing of a
          Linux build of Inform 10.1.1, as well as 10 other bug fixes.
        </p>
      </description>
    </release>
  </releases>
</component>