Interactive Fiction

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Interactive fiction (IF) is the formal name for what many of us used to simply refer to as text adventure games. Infocom’s Zork (and its sequels) is probably the most iconic computer game of this type. Likewise, Bantam Books’ Choose Your Own Adventure series and the Which Way Books written by R.G. Austin et al were popular analog “game book” versions of the IF concept. I’ve always loved this format and may try to write my own some day.

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Online Stories TADS IF Database Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling Baf’s Guide to Interactive Fiction People’s Republic of IF Books Choose Your Own Adventure     (still published!) Which Way Books Games Zork

Authoring Tools ADRIFT Fashion Quest (YAML) Inform inklewriter Quest TADS Twine Undum Readers Zoom (OS X, Unix)

Articles The Origin of the Choose Your Own Adventure Books Writing IF by Emily Short A Writer’s Guide to Interactive Fiction On Writing Interactive Fiction A Beginner’s Guide to Playing Interactive Fiction Miscellany The Interactive Fiction Page (Carnegie Mellon)

Links I cannot access from my current location:
http://notimetoplay.org/2011/06/11/hypertext-it-doesnt-get-much-easier/
http://ramus.notimetoplay.org/
http://brasslantern.org/writers/iftheory/
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/BenServiss/20150113/234013/Writing_Interactive_Fiction_in_Six_Steps.php

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