Hi Lelia, Interactive Fiction is a generic term for all text based games written using the inform, tads, and other such text adventure programming languages. By and large most of them are very accessible, and can be quite fun. It is basically interactive stories. You often have to type commands such as open, look, get, etc to interface with the games. Here is an example of such an interactive fiction game.
You are standing in the warm summer air out side your house. In front of you is a large mailbox. There does not seam to be anything around you of interest. You type, "open mailbox" You suddenly open the mailbox and find a letter inside. It is covered in a white envelope with strange writing on it. Even though you can't read the writing you know it looks like something out of a fantacy story. You type, "get letter" You take the letter out of the mailbox. You are holding the letter. You type, "read letter" You open the envelope and out falls an ancient partchment with Elfish runes written upon it. As soon as your skin touches the enchanted paper you realise you suddenly can read the text. It says, "Welcom great adventurer. You have been chosen to be the next hero in Fantacy. Inside this envelope is a magic amulet that will take you from your normal existance to the land of Elves, Dwarves, heroes, and monsters. So get ready for an adventurer of a life time." Anyway, that is an example of how interactive fiction games work. It is basically like a text based story where you talk back and forth with the game giving it instructions that it will try to carry out. Smile. On 12/19/08, lelia <struv...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi all, I was just listening to a cast of a pod" made by Dark, grin, and > in this pod that he cast he talked of interactive fiction? Is it accessible > to us and if so what do I do to play it? > > thanks > > Lelia > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > -- Sincerely: Thomas Ward President of USA Games Interactive http://www.usagames.us --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
