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Interactive Fiction Why the world still needs more Choose-Your-Own Adventure-style computer games. 20 Feb 2002 Modes of Collaboration Why don't more IF writers collaborate with one another? 23 Nov 2001 Shared Worlds Some musings on why there...Humorous text adventure by Crummycom.
http://www.crummy.com/devel/if/gtv/
Collection of game reviews he wrote for Computer Currents magazine, and selected links to IF resources.
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Interactive Fiction Joe DeRouen's Home Page This page best viewed with a screen resolution of 800x600 or higher Joe's Interactive Fiction Page From the original Adventure and Scott Adams Adventureland through Zork, Deadline, and Enchanter to The Multi-Dimensional Thief and Jigsaw,...Lots of classic 1980s computer software for sale/trade, specializing in Infocom text adventures. Monthly collector's column, waiting list, links to other software collectors' pages.
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Ye Olde Infocomme Shoppe You are not currently logged in.LOGINREGISTER AN ACCOUNT Start of a transcript of: YE OLDE INFOCOMME SHOPPE PHP/MySQL Edition Est. 1996 OPEN THE DOOR THEN ENTER THE SHOPPE The unused hinges squeal loudly as the...A MUD for text adventure enthusiasts.
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A MUD Forever Voyaging This chat server is running PerlMUD 2.0, by Boutell.Com, Inc. Dorm A This is a very long room, lined with multi-tiered bunks. Flimsy partitions between the tiers may provide a modicum of privacy. These spartan...The page for classic text adventure afficionados. Covers Scott Adams, Brian Howarth, Infocom, Level 9, and Magnetic Scrolls.
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PDD's Adventure Page The history of text adventures remains to be written. Most people agree that it started with a game called Adventure (also known as Colossal Cave written by Will Crowther in 1968-72 and expanded by Don...Michael Feir's collection of what he feels is the best freely available interactive fiction with reviews for each game.
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Rising From Time's Ashes: The Best Free Interactive Fiction Of The Century Once known as text adventures, this genre of game has changed as drastically as its name over the past thirty years. In the beginning, complex treasure hunts ruled the day. The focus was on the...How to play an adventure, how to know which commands to type in, and all those little bits and pieces that'll help you get past the first post.
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The Official YS Beginners Guide To Adventures Inspired by a letter from me published in YS64 (blush Mike Gerrard produced this masterpiece Mike Gerrard Are you new to the delirious delights of adventure game-playing? Then hark because old Uncle Michael's got some...Photos of the denizens of ifMUD and r.a.i-f.
http://www.davidglasser.net/ifhos/
IF stuff in general.
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Interactive Fiction F stuff involving your host. Here's a few links to some IF material with which I'm personally involved: Web Projects: The IF Beta Site was set up by Liza Daly and I to help IF...A place for authors and reviwers to meet.
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Interactive Fiction Review Conspiracy Want to know someone played it? Want feedback discussion? Author Log-In Reviewer Sign-Up Reviews FAQ The Conspirators The IF Review Conspiracy is a tag team of volunteers who will write timely reviews of new (post...Ranked and annotated items, covering academic articles, fan or community web sites, influential amateur articles, and references to text adventures in mainstream literature. Focuses on the cultural and literary significance of text adventures.
http://www.uwec.edu/jerzdg/orr/a...icles/IF/bibliography/index.html
Information and tutorials.
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Interactive Fiction Basement Why the heck did you call it Interactive Fiction Basement? Well it kinda just jumped into my head. I used to live in an old house, which oddly enough happens to be old and white...Offers a place where testers and authors can meet each other.
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The IF Beta Site Info Page This page is intended to be an exhaustive compendium of all the information you need to be a beta-tester for the games we have at this site, and for authors who want to submit games....Recommended playing list for interactive fiction, compiled by Emily Short.
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IF Literacy This page is intended to provide a resource for people who ask say, has there ever been a game that did this It's not really a list of the best IF games or even the...A database of adventures for 8-bit computers.
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The 8-bit Adventure World This site benefits from frames and JavaScript, although neither is required. Since your browser doesn't support frames, you can only access the noframes-version of this site, which doesn't use JavaScript either. Please select a language...General information for people new to interactive fiction.
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rec.arts.int-fiction Frequently Asked Questions This is the homepage for the group's Frequently Asked Questions list. The FAQ provides answers to many of the questions that might otherwise be asked over and over again on raif It is intended to...Public ratings and comments of Interactive Fiction games.
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Interactive Fiction Ratings It was rather hard for me to duplicate at first, and in testing it I found another bug that only affects people who haven't RATED any games who try to use that feature but anyhow,...Annual competition for games which exclude traditional "game elements" from entries, and also try to lift any plot as much as possible.
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Interactive Fiction Art Gallery This was also an entry in the 2001 Annual Competition Coming: Remote Control (Still Life Unknown release date. Artists Profiles Judges 2004 Reviews IF Art Show 2003 2004 Rules Reflections on Entering Show 2000 Independent...