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I put this together for my own use, but maybe others will benefit and suggest other resources.

With the I7 IDE package you get:

• Writing with Inform
• The Recipe Book
• The manuals page of inform7.com contains other formats of the manuals too.

Andrew Plotkin updated Sean Barret's index for Writing with Inform:

• http://eblong.com/zarf/i7index/

Two more manuals are:

• Inform 7 for Programmers by Ron Newcomb
• The Inform 7 Handbook by Jim Aikin (current up to 5Z71, so a few versions out of date)

Aaron Reed wrote a book on I7:

• http://inform7.textories.com/

It's helpful to read the source for other games. Here's an IFDB search for well-rated games with source available:

• I7 source available and 3+ stars

Jason McIntosh wrote an extension search that will find search terms in extension documentation:

• http://i7search.jmac.org/

Oliver Reiser made an I7 cheatsheet:

• http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~moreiser/inform/Inform7_CheatSheet.pdf

Emily Short wrote a document translating I6 concepts and syntax to I7. It's old but a quite useful birds-eye view in my opinion:

• http://emshort.wordpress.com/how-to-play/writing-if/inform-7/i6-entry-points-translated/

If you compile any game in the I7 IDE there's a good syntax reference in the Index/Phrases tab. There's an older plain text reference but you should prefer the reference in the IDE.

• http://inform7.com/learn/documents/I7_syntax.txt

Emily Short also made a rules flowchart:

• http://inform7.com/learn/documents/Rules%20Chart.pdf

I7 includes the Standard Rules with every game. It's a great resource for learning I7 and understanding a game's default behavior:

• http://www.inform7.com/sources/src/stdrules/Woven/index.html

You can sort of think of Inform 7 as a domain-specific language written in Inform 6 (which itself is a DSL, but anyway), so it's helpful to understand some I6 eventually.

• http://www.inform7.com/sources/src/i6template/Woven/index.html
• http://www.inform-fiction.org/manual/html/contents.html

If you include visuals and sound, you may need a beginner's reference for Glulx:

• http://adamcadre.ac/gull/

Rockin; thank you

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Could this be made sticky?

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Done

Would be nice to have an I6 sticky as well, preferably A B O V E the I7 sticky so that there is no doubt as to which language is the original and which the knockoff.

I would especially push for the link below (which is actually mostly in Inform 7). It's Appendix A -- i.e. the Standard Rules commented and explained literate programming style. To my mind, it's a vital part of the I7 documentation.

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For what it's worth, I haven't updated the syntax document for the last build, and don't expect to do so going forward, because the indexing has improved enough that it should now provide a comprehensive reference for that kind of thing (and it's automatically cross-linked with the documentation). But if people find the old document useful to browse anyway, that's fine -- just be warned it's largely been supplanted.

Excellent!

Also, this link to Appendix B, the underlying I6 template layer--just as vital in my opinion as the documentation of the Standard Rules.

http://inform7.com/sources/src/i6templa ... index.html

--Erik

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Thanks for the comments folks, I've updated the OP.