I’ve started writing a text adventure based on the show Warehouse 13, and I’m going to document the process here.

I’m using Inform 7 to write the game, and this first part is rather annoying because I don’t completely understand what syntax to use. I know exactly what I want to happen at the beginning, but I can’t actually get it to operate because I don’t know how to phrase it. For example, I want the player to follow a character into the opening to the Warehouse, but I don’t yet know how to tell the character to move or to wait for the player in the next room.