Parchment

Parchment is the Interactive Fiction player for the web. To play a story with Parchment go to https://iplayif.com!

Parchment for Inform 7

Inform 7 includes Parchment, allowing you to produce personal websites for your stories. If you want to update the version of Parchment used by Inform 7, grab parchment-for-inform7.zip and unzip it into the Templates subfolder of your project's Materials folder.

If you would like to make a website like what Inform 7 would produce, but for a pre-existing storyfile, we recommend ifsitegen.py. You can download parchment-for-inform7.zip and pass it with the -i option and it will use the new version instead of the old one bundled with Inform 7:

python3 ifsitegen.py -i parchment-for-inform7.zip Storyfile.ulx

Single File Build

Parchment is also available as a single file, suitable for downloading and using offline. Download from the releases page.

Free Software

Parchment is MIT licensed, and incorporates the following upstream projects:

Building Instructions

Parchment is only designed for building in Linux and may not work in other OSes. You'll need to install Git and Node version >= 16.

The upstream projects are included as git submodules. Start by initializing the submodules:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Then install the npm dependencies:

npm install

This will also automatically build Parchment.

Then, you'll need to open index.html on a web server. (It won't work when you run it on your filesystem as a file:/// URL.) You can launch a simple web server like this:

npm start

Then you can view Parchment at http://localhost:8080 to see your handiwork.

Each time you change code in the src folder, the server will automatically rebuild the web code. Refresh to see your changes.

You can also build your own dist/inform/parchment-for-inform7.zip like this:

npm install
npm run inform7