Amnesia as Interactive Fiction

[Gameoids]

Well, is Inform 7 some kind of scripting or rather something that the player reads?

As Alpha23 said, you might want to try out some interactive fiction first before you ask any questions, as I'm sure many of them will be answered if you do.

For instance: Anchorhead.
http://www.ifiction.org/games/play.phpz?...&mode=html

Think of it as one of those choose-your-own-adventure books, but electronic, and being able to have much more freedom, depending on the game itself. I've always been a big fan of IF in general, but it's hard to attract an audience, since popularity has rapidly decreased in the past two decades due to more graphics-intensive games being introduced. It's quite sad, really.