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unusual facts about interactive fiction



All Roads

All Roads is a 2001 interactive fiction game by Jon Ingold that placed first at the 2001 Interactive Fiction Competition.

Command-line interface

The text adventure The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a piece of interactive fiction based on Douglas Adam's book of the same name, is a teletype-style command-line game.

Floatpoint

Floatpoint is a 2006 work of interactive fiction written by Emily Short about a diplomat sent to an endangered colony to discuss evacuation options and terms of cohabitation.

Large Emerald

:The large emerald is also one of the Twenty Treasures of Zork from the Infocom text adventure Zork I.

Zork: The Undiscovered Underground

Zork: The Undiscovered Underground (or ZUU for short) is an interactive fiction video game written by former Infocom Implementors Marc Blank and Michael Berlyn and implemented by G. Kevin Wilson using the Inform language.


see also

Beyond the Tesseract

In 1988 the game was ported to Atari ST, MS-DOS and Solaris environments and, in 2003, to interactive fiction standard of machine-independent Z-code.

Date with Destiny Adventure

The Date with Destiny Adventure series comprises two short novels of interactive fiction published by Quirk Books in 2003 that parodied the Choose Your Own Adventure series.

Frenetic

The Frenetic Five, a series of interactive fiction ("text adventure") games for a wide variety of platforms

Hello, sailor

"Hello, sailor" is used as a running joke in the interactive fiction-text adventure Zork universe.

I0

I-0, a piece of interactive fiction written by Adam Cadre

IStory Creator

iStory Creator is a program used to create portable interactive fiction called IStories.

Manifesto Games

A team of reviewers including Greg Costikyan and Emily Short post one review per day at the website, covering independent, alternative reality and 'big urban' games, interactive fiction, and mods.

Upper Sandusky, Ohio

Steve Meretzky, an Infocom interactive fiction author, chose the setting of Upper Sandusky at random and did not intend the town to be reflected in any particular light.

In the Infocom interactive fiction adventure, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, the hero (or heroine, depending on player choice) was from Upper Sandusky, Ohio and the first scene of the adventure game took place in a bar in the town.