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tikat · 02-03-2004, 06:36 PM

HappyMonkey and Slartibartfast hit on Interactive Fiction games (Zork and such) in another thread.

I played these voraciously when I was a kid, and even put together a few barely playable games with sad little parsers in Apple BASIC and Pascal.

Now commercial text-only adventure games are pretty much gone, but with dedicated IF languages like Inform and TADS out there, it is easy for anyone to write one, and many people do.

Did the rest of you play Infocom and similar games, and have you written any?

02-03-2004, 06:36 PM	#1
tikat Paramour of Paradigm Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Conway, Arkansas Posts: 42	A Twisty Maze HappyMonkey and Slartibartfast hit on Interactive Fiction games (Zork and such) in another thread. I played these voraciously when I was a kid, and even put together a few barely playable games with sad little parsers in Apple BASIC and Pascal. Now commercial text-only adventure games are pretty much gone, but with dedicated IF languages like Inform and TADS out there, it is easy for anyone to write one, and many people do. Did the rest of you play Infocom and similar games, and have you written any?