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From: Erik Swanson <egswanso@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: question about authoring systems
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Greetings,
I am a newcomer to the IF scence, while I have played some IF games in 
the past, it is just recently that I started an interest in writing them.
My question is this - I have been using AGT to write my games, because I 
found it much easier to use then Inform (I have no programming experience
outside BASIC and HTML)  But I am a little irritated at the simplicity of
the system, which can be overcome slightly by extensive use of 
meta-commands (as I have done), but I was wondering if anyone can 
recommand any other authoring system which is still easy to use (As a 
full time student at U of C, I dont have the time to learn a new language 
independently, and I dont have room on my schedule for comp.sci classes) 
but makes it easier to have more complicated games.
Thanks all.


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