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How do you complete the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy interact...
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What are the best Interactive Fiction games of all time?
I added this question originally, and now have been asked to answer it. So I took a crack at it. My own experience with interactive fiction has been primarily Infocom games. To that end, I think the best games made by this company are these... Read More »
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How important is the use of graphics in interactive fiction and g...
Graphics are critical to video games but entirely optional in interactive fiction. In fact, I am quite the traditionalist in that regard. I do not believe in putting pictures in works of fiction. How many jokes can we all remember about ... Read More »
Source: http://www.absolutewrite.com/novels/howard_sherman.htm
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Specially designed games from Spoonbill Software are free of charge. They often utilise Microsoft SAPI Text-To-Speech. See www.omninet.net.au
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Source: http://www.kgbanswers.co.uk/what-software-do-blind-people-use-to-...
Check out DOSBox ( http://www.dosbox.com/) which is a DOS emulator for Windows.
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Source: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080921182802AA0RoKl
These are adventure games, which usually contain little or no graphics but use prose to describe locations, events and, hopefully, a good story. The first interactive fiction game was created in the late 1970s and was known as Adventure (o...
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Source: http://ifmapper.rubyforge.org/start.html
There were some very intelligent and insightful things said, but the one comment that stuck in my head was Andrew Plotkin’s expression of disappointment regarding the ‘success’ of his 2004 work, The Dreamhold Ever since I began this journe...
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Source: http://www.inthecompanyofgrues.com/?cat=6
Leadlight is programmed in Applesoft BASIC and 6502 assembly language for the 8-bit Apple II computer. To play it on a modern Mac or PC involves running it in an Apple II emulator. You can do that right here on this website (
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Source: http://leadlightgame.com/faq/faq.html
Dave Lebling [D.L.]: The inspiration was the Crowther/Woods Colossal Cave Adventure, which hit MIT in late '76 or early '77. In addition, I had been playing D&D a lot, and was really enjoying it and thinking about creating D&D scenarios, so...
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Source: http://brasslantern.org/community/interviews/lebling.html
IF has been extremely influential -- it dominated commercial computer games in the early 1980s. In interactive fiction, people worked out the essentials of puzzles, fictional and game spaces, and characters in narrative games. Some people m...
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Source: http://www.examiner.com/rpg-in-national/interview-with-nick-montf...
