6.16. Alternate Default Messages

| Chapter 6: Commands |

| 6.16. Alternate Default Messages

Often we will want to replace the text produced by Inform by default: this includes quite a wide range of text, much of which either describes the success of a command or explains why the action failed. Replacing standard action report rules demonstrates how we might write some rules overriding the standard output.

Currently, Inform provides no systematic way to look at large numbers of textual responses and change many of them at once. While this is something that may change later in beta development, there are already some third-party extensions available on the Inform website that do provide these facilities.

This is especially useful if we want to change the person or tense in which the game is narrated, or if we would like to give the viewpoint character a distinctive voice and set of mannerisms.

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| Example We Replacing the standard action report rules to reflect our own design. |
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