Verbose looking


9 Aug 1995 19:47:22 GMT

As I rediscover interactive fiction, I find myself trying to fall back on
old habits...

One, as I quickly found, was that I like getting free looks at my
surroundings through use of the verbose command. By that I mean
"verbose" not only puts you in verbose mode, but gives you a free
(no-move-penalty) "look" command.

Later Infocom games do this, as do some TADS games I've found. However,
no Inform offerings do. Is this an intentional omission from Inform? Or
do Inform authors all feel that I'm a big cheater and should have
remembered what the room looked like the first time?

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