NotesWhimsy is a small game engine and a fantasy console for making interactive stories where you can navigate the worlds you create and talk with stuff! Whilst simple in nature, the toolset allows making narrative-driven exploratory games with no prior experience in game development.FeedUnfurl
NotesSo, a bunch of us made some interactive fiction games, one game per track on the album Apollo 18 by They Might Be Giants. The regular tracks are generally short games. The Fingertips tracks are one-move games (however the authors interpreted that). Hereâs They Might Be Giants. They have lots of great albums besides this one, and you should go buy them all. Hereâs the original post about the tribute, and here are the games. You can play them online via the links below, or you can download them to play offline (updated March 26, 2012, 1337 EDT). See âHow Do I Play?â at the left if youâre unsure what to do.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesâTourneyâ is a game that barely exists. Itâs the shadow of an idea that slipped into the world last week during a free-wheeling conversation about design, agency, failure, and whether games can make meaningful statements about the nature of tragedy. To help the discussion along we invented a few imaginary games that could serve as stable reference points in unfamiliar terrain. One of the things we dreamed up is Tourney, a game about maintaining oneâs integrity in the face of inevitable decline.Unfurl
NotesPlayfic is a community for writing, sharing, and playing interactive fiction games (aka "text adventures") entirely from your browser, using a "natural language"-inspired language called Inform 7.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesInstead of asking a question, he bellowed, âWelcome to ACTION CASTLE! You are in a small cottage. There is a fishing pole here. Exits are out.âUnfurl
Notes"The Automatypewriter is a typewriter that can type by itself:<br />
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It can also detect whatâs being typed on it. It can be used to send text to and/or receive text from a computer via USB. It was designed as a platform for playing interactive fiction games, in particular to play custom software being developed for it by Jim Munroe."Unfurl
Notes"For me, if it even remotely looks like interactive fiction, then I see it as having value. I see inclusivity, I see intent, I see passion, I see unity, I see beauty, I see power, and I see love.<br />
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Deep inside, I hope that never changes."Unfurl
Notes"An image of the original game is available for download as a C64 tape-image file. I found this image, pirated, out there on the Internet. The people who did it rather sneakily removed my name, and that of the publisher, from the cracked version that's in circulation, so I've restored them in this version of the image; but if you want the cracked version, you can have it - my feeling is that if it weren't for these people stealing my game, I wouldn't have a running version of it myself. So they can have some credit. "Unfurl
Notes"Ren'Py is a free and cross-platform visual novel engine that helps you use words, pictures, and sounds to tell stories with the computer. Its easy and efficient script language makes it possible for non-programmers to make visual novels, while its Python support allows for complex simulation games."FeedUnfurl
Notes"People who are interested in interactive fiction but who havenât played much or any of it ask me for suggestions from time to time â not as often as Iâd like, of course, but, luckily, once in a while. Iâve had a page of recommendations up on my site since 2005. The games on that list remain good ones, but Iâm now updating those recommendations to take into account games from recent years. Iâm posting the new recommendations here. Note that many of the people who ask me about IF are of a literary bent, as am I, and my suggestions reflect that."FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"The Frotzophone is an interface for making music with interactive fiction. The topography simulated in the game is used to generate sound, as is the player's path through the game. A Frotzophone "performance" looks just like playing a text adventure; but in addition to playing a game, you're also playing music."Unfurl
Notes"âLostâ creator J.J. Abrams may not have have felt like explaining the smoke monster to MTV News movies reporter Josh Horowitz during an interview taped a few feet from my desk last week. But he both offered to adopt Horowitz and answered one question about his interest in making video games."Unfurl
Notes"Interactive Fiction (IF) fans will be pleased to hear that Craig Smith has released Frotz [App Store] for the iPhone through the iTunes App Store as a free download."Unfurl
Notes"Words in interactive fiction individually carry more weight than they carry in static prose, if only because of the amount of attention we demand the player give to each one."FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"The more I thought about it, the more the web actually seemed like an ideal place for interactive fiction to be experienced, rather than merely a more convenient one. "Unfurl
Notes"Parchment aims to be a web-based Z-machine interpreter that uses open web technologies to provide the same level of functionality that desktop-based Z-machines offer, with added conveniences that only the web can provide. "Unfurl
Notes"Below is a list of z-code based interactive fiction titles made available by The Interactive Fiction Archive. You can click on an entry to start playing it."Unfurl
Notes"When it was made, Frontalot and I had a handshake deal: I shot it for him, he could release it when he wanted, and I could release it on the final GET LAMP project down the line. Well, today he released it on his website."Unfurl
Notes"Rather than using a small set of terse programming directives as Inform 6 did, Inform 7 uses a subset of English, in an effort to make interactive fiction programming more accessible to writers who lack a computer programming background."Unfurl
Notes"Made by Videlectrix, Homestar Runner's fictional software design company, Dungeonman 3 sports "state-of-the-art amber monochrome visuals" (circa 1980), real-time simulated medieval English text, a parser that talks back to you, and enough mocked adventurUnfurl
NotesInsanely cool natural language approach to authoring interactive fiction - "brings together the editing, testing, indexing and publishing of interactive fiction within a simple one-window user interface."Unfurl
Notes"Leading IF author Emily Short has released two new games, and Graham Nelson, IF author and creator of the widely-used IF system Inform, has a new IF offering, too."Unfurl
Whimsy by Ct.js
The People's Republic of Interactive Fiction - Apollo 18+20
Introducing Playfic - Waxy.org
Mike Taylor - The Causes of Chaos
Post Position » Interactive Fiction Suggestions, Fall 2009
Creating Adventure Games On Your Computer
The Prose Medium and IF « Emily Shortâs Interactive Fiction
Introducing Parchment at Toolness
Brass Lantern: Write a Text Adventure With Inform 7