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All of Infocom’s text adventure source code archived and public
Infocom text adventures were some of the first PC games I ever played. I was too young to properly wrap my head around them at the time, but they still mean a lot to me. Thus, I'm happy to report that archivist Jason Scott of textfiles.com has uploaded the original source code for all of them to GitHub this week. Digital historians and aspiring coders alike…
Text adventures, interactive fiction if you will, does not have to look plain. I know, it's the words and, in certain cases, the puzzles that count, but it really can't hurt if a texty game looks as lovely as Code 7 and its intelligent, elegant interface do. Admittedly, the excellent voice acting on offer does also help quite a bit, but I would never dream…
Count on Jonas Kyratzes to play with the tropes detailed in The Hero with a Thousand Faces and deliver a brilliant Twine-powered text adventure that simultaneously examines traditional heroic literature values and revels in retelling the classic save-the-world fantasy tale. With The Matter of the Great Red Dragon taking place in the Land of Dreams one can also expect a subtle yet incredibly novel critique of modern…
From the moment you open your in-game eyes in Lightyear by Jim Bruges, to find yourself inside a manned space telescope crafted by text and choices and bits of Twine, you'll also start to wonder whether this is a horror game, a technological thriller, an attempt to simulate living in space, or a story about loss and loneliness.
When a procedural generation jam happens, one can expect to play with all sorts of appropriately generated and clever things, though rarely with a text adventure of sorts. Procedurally mixing words and actions in a coherent way is after all an extremely difficult problem and that's why, wisely, Infini-Quest aims for silliness over storytelling.
Very few games attempt to convey the complete and utter terror of war, to avoid any sort of jingoism, and to still create a sense of desperate excitement. Even fewer succeed. Hill 160, rather impressively, is one of the latter. What's more, as one 2014's more traditional IFComp entries, it accomplishes that using nothing more than text. Glorious, evocative text that paints an atmosphere of complete…
O, glorious IFComp. The interactive fiction competition has been running since 1995 and at times during those 19 years has felt like the last stalwart keeping the community ticking over. Now the genre is more healthy than its been in a long time, and voting for this year's entries has just begun. Would you like to be Galileo's assistant and sneak his banned book out…
It's 2014. Despite the creative rennaissance enabled by the likes of Twine, text adventures and interactive fiction are one of the few genres yet to experience a commercial revival from the rise of new funding models and digital distribution. There's still hope, though. Choice Of Games, one of the few companies trying to make a living from making such games, have just announced that their…
"I need you to head down to the bad part of town and check out a StepEasy squattin' in the industrial quarter. Dame across the street said she saw a lady, she thought it shady somehow. A man came through the window and she was struck down (I mean the lady) old dame thinks, to her doom. But listen, can you do this? I mean…
