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title: InteractiveFiction
created: 2007-12-11 11:42
updated: 2007-12-11 11:42
revision: 14
author: Auriea
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[[Games]]

## Notes:
- A Definition of Narrative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative
- [[ChrisCrawfordsDefinitionOfInteractivity]] (more about Chris @ http://erasmatazz.com)
- [Hypertext Terms](http://www.w3.org/Terms.html)
- [Hypertext Lexicon](http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~arcadia/tesseract/lexicon.html)
- [[ElementsOfDrama]]
- NarrativeStructures
- CommonVerbs 

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## MUD, MOO
[Gog:Multi+user+dungeon 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 :) )

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## 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](http://www.the-underdogs.org/genre.php?name=Interactive%20Fiction&subgen=Choose%20Your%20Own%20Adventure)


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## 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

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## Text Adventure Games
**Galetea**
- http://www.nickm.com/if/emshort/galatea.html
by Emily Short [http://emshort.wordpress.com/my-work/]
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
[[image/thumb:TheCount]]

*Hamlet*, the text adventure
- http://www.robinjohnson.f9.co.uk/adventure/hamlet.html


*Zork 2*

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

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## 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.