interactive fiction
Interactive fiction is a genre of games which is largely text- and story-based. There are two main subtypes of interactive fiction: parser games, where a player has to type instructions into the game (e.g. “examine bottle”, “go north”) and gamebooks (a.k.a. choice games, or choose-your-own-adventures), where a player chooses what to do out of a list of author-provided options. There’s a degree of overlap between interactive fiction and text-based RPGs. These days, IF is often played as browser games.
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- : 📝 Micro post: Started a silly little CYOA story (it’s about my cat nagging me for food 😆) in Ido, using Twine, tonight. I made …
- : 🎮 On Interactive Fiction and Language-Learning: Last week, I spent a few hours going down the rabbit-hole that is experimenting with interactive fiction. This is a …
Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.