Interactive Fiction
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During a time period when graphic cards for computers were coming out, Interactive Fiction launched a campaign to promote the imaginative and intellectually stimulating aspects of their games.
You turn the corner, and find ... a DRAGON blocking your path! Maybe you should pull out your sword |
Interactive fiction, commonly abbreviated as IF, is a computer-based narrative that began in the 1970's as a way for a reader or player to take an active part in the direction of a story. It is very similar to the once popular "Choose Your Own Adventure" books, allowing the interactor to manipulate the plot events. The genres among the games vary from text adventure, story based and puzzle. The IF community has grown so large that they even hold competitions and award ceremonies. The Interactive Fiction Competition began in 1995 and features the relatively shorter works, while the Spring Thing, which began in 2001 is a venue to showcase the longer works that would not be eligible for the IF Competition. IF's first main news publication, XYZZY News is now the host of the XYZZY Awards, modeled after awards shows similar to those that honor movies and television, and span a variety of categories. Though the commercial aspects of Interactive Fiction may have diminished somewhat in recent years the interest remains very high. And, the games are really fun to play!
Strong Bad provides an interpretation of video games and IF
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History of Interactive Fiction
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How to Make Interactive Fiction
> explore cave
>examine room
>take lantern
I don't recognize that verb |
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This page was created as a presentation for the TEXT-IT project for Professor Pasternack's Spring 2006 English 147 Scroll to Screen class at the University of California, Santa Barbara by Jen Acuna, Priya Kumar, Jenna Taylor and Caitlin Yturralde. Any unauthorized use of this website is not permitted, unless authorized by the authors. Copyright 2006 |
Last updated June 2, 2006