However, I've decided to give Inform 7 a go. It's programming syntax is described as natural language. Here is an example of me creating a room object, creating an enumerated property, creating a generic object, giving the generic object the enumerated property, and creating a few instances of the new object type.
Your Apartment is a room.
Color is a kind of value. The colors are red, blue, and green.
A car is a kind of thing. A car has a color. The color of the car is blue.
Before printing the name of a car: say "[color] ".
The North Car is a car.
The South Car is a car.
The color of the North car is red.
The North Car is in your apartment.
The South Car is in your apartment.
Now obviously, I hope you don't really find cars in your apartment. However this illustrates pretty well the construct of Inform 7's language. I've created a room call "your apartment" Created the enum color and given it {red, blue, green}. Created a car type which has a enum value and set a default value of blue. I've overridden the print name method of a car type to print the color, and I created two cars [North Car, South Car] and given North Car the color red.
So it's a little weird to work with at first and I'm still struggling a bit with the syntax but hopefully, I'll be able to do my first five room adventure with Inform soon enough.
Wish me luck!
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