Developed by Andrew Plotkin, the game[2] is written in version five of the Inform programming language,[3] and compiled for the Z-machine,[1] a virtual machine that allows interactive fiction to be played on a variety of platforms.
[4] On June 24, 2014, Plotkin shared A Change in the Weather's source code for "personal, educational use only.
"[3] The game tied for first place in the Inform category of the 1995 Interactive Fiction Competition.
"[2] Interactive fiction scholar Nick Montfort called it "remarkable ... for its attempts to integrate the typical sorts of adventure-game puzzles with the description of landscape, the simulation of an animal character, and the emotional situation of the 'adventurer' player character".
[6] A Change in the Weather is included in the game collection that comes with the popular IF interpreter Frotz for the iPhone.