FewL

FewL is a programming language designed for creating interactive fiction. It focuses on simplifying the development process for authors by providing a clear and expressive syntax for defining rooms, characters, items, and game logic. The language aims to be accessible to beginners while offering enough flexibility for more complex narrative structures.

Key features of FewL include a declarative approach to world-building, allowing developers to describe the game's environment and its inhabitants in a structured manner. It handles common interactive fiction elements such as parsing player commands, managing inventory, and triggering events. FewL supports conditional logic and variable manipulation, enabling the creation of dynamic storylines and puzzles.

The language compiles to a portable format, allowing games created with FewL to be played on various platforms without significant modification. This portability is achieved through an interpreter or virtual machine that executes the compiled FewL code. The goal of FewL is to lower the barrier to entry for interactive fiction development, enabling more people to tell their stories through this medium. It emphasizes readability and maintainability of the game's code.