IFM links¶
Mapping programs and tools¶
- GUEmap is the most popular graphical mapping tool used on Windows.
- IFMapper is a graphical mapping tool for Linux and Windows and has the ability to read and write IFM and GUEmap maps. It also uses (and improves on) the scr2ifm algorithm for mapping transcripts.
- Frobot creates maps in a similar manner to scr2ifm, by analyzing a game transcript.
- ifm2i7 is a Perl script which converts IFM maps into Inform 7 input, using IFM’s raw output format.
- asciimapper is a Perl script which takes ASCII representations of maps and converts them to IFM format.
Existing IFM maps¶
There’s a web page set up by Dave Chapeskie (dchapes@ddm.wox.org) which has many IFM maps in source and PostScript format, at
At the moment it contains maps of a few Infocom and Inform games. Some are complete, others not quite. A few have tasks set up so that a walkthrough can be made.
Another site containing some IFM maps can be found at:
Other links¶
- The game-solving side of IFM touches on an area of research at McGill University called Narrative Flow Graphs.
