InteractiveFiction

ElegantMedia Games

Notes:

• A Definition of Narrative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative
• ChrisCrawfordsDefinitionOfInteractivity (more about Chris @ http://erasmatazz.com)
• Hypertext Terms
• Hypertext Lexicon
• ElementsOfDrama
• NarrativeStructures
• CommonVerbs
  

MUD, MOO

Multi User Dungeon MUD muhd n. [acronym, Multi-User Dungeon; alt. Multi-User Dimension]
A class of virtual reality experiments accessible via the Internet. These are real-time chat forums with structure; they have multiple ‘locations’ like an adventure game, and may include combat, traps, puzzles, magic, a simple economic system, and the capability for characters to build more structure onto the database that represents the existing world.
WikiPedia:MUD, WikiPedia:MOO
The legendary LambdaMOO: http://www.lambdamoo.info

The Land of Karchan

• http://www.karchan.org/karchan/index.html
  a blend of text and graphical, predefined actions and type-in.
  

ScriptersMOO E_WEB Interface

• http://iris.scripters.be:1180/
  also has the ability to connect to the MOO via MSN instant messager (pretty cool :) )
  

CYOA

Choose Your Own Adventure Books

• Game Book Archive
  http://www.gamebooks.org/show_series.php?name=Choose+Your+Own+Adventure
• A Breakdown of the structure
  http://grandtextauto.gatech.edu/2003/09/02/choose-one-of-four-deep-paths/
  

Computerized Examples

• A Travellers Tale http://www.angelfire.com/wy/lemmingpie/redwallcyoa.html
• Neverending Tale, An online wiki based example http://www.coder.com/creations/tale/
• CYOA IF Games @ The Underdogs
  

Interactive Literature

The Body by Shelley Jackson

• http://www.altx.com/thebody/body.html
  

Ceremony Of Innocence

• http://realworldmultimedia.com/legacy/ceremony
  

Al-Jahiz

• http://www.entropy8zuper.org/html/drafts/al-jahiz
  

Text Adventure Games

Galetea

• http://www.nickm.com/if/emshort/galatea.html
  by Emily Short [1]
  something in her work makes me feel there might be a corrolary between what she is doing and any interpretation of salome. made me think of interactive video, scanning forward then backward through time.
  

Pong, The Text Based Adventure

• http://www.karber.net/textbased/pong/
  

Archive sites

• http://ifarchive.org
• http://www.ifiction.org
  

Brass Lantern’s Introduction to Interactive Fiction

• http://brasslantern.org/beginners/introif.html
  

The First Games Auriea Ever Played All the Way Through.

• The Count: http://www.ifiction.org/games/play.php?cat=44&game=33&mode=html
• Voodoo Castle: http://www.ifiction.org/games/play.php?cat=44&game=47&mode=html
  
  

Hamlet, the text adventure

• http://www.robinjohnson.f9.co.uk/adventure/hamlet.html
  

Zork 2

Altar Ego: http://www.theblackforge.net/

Graphical Text Adventure Games

Classics

• King’s Quest. You typed in commands and it showed locations instead of describing them through text.
• Day of the Tentacle
• Indiana Jones and the last Crusade
• The Secret of Monky Island
  

Castle Marrach

• http://www.skotos.net/games/marrach/
  A fine example of a multiplayer online “text-dominant” adventure.
  there is a free trial. possible that it only works on PC.