Interactive Fiction

In this interactive fiction, you get points as you discover the story and interactively make it unfold. This one is a gentle intro to IFs. This is my first IF. It is short with only 2 potential points. It is also a gentle introduction to Text Adventuring.

Eric's Gift is a linear and rather stilted example of interactive fiction. The mood it presents is faintly wistful, but too tranquil to inspire much interaction. I suppose that works after a fashion, but what interaction is required is cryptic and not well-clued. As a result you must guess the...

The Carthage Corn Maze is a free interactive fiction novel with a surreal theme. You are standing at the entrance to the Maize Maze of Carthage, North Africa. All around you is desolation, apart from the prize-filled corn maze which was constructed by local officials at great expense to boost...


Platforms: Mac

A free interactive fiction novel for your Mac Cranial Pounding is a free interactive fiction novel with a medical theme. Awaiting interrogating, your planning was to drug interrogatable so he would be truthful. But while waiting for his arrival at eating be served, the cranial pounding began....


Platforms: Mac

A free social novel for your Mac Diorama is a free interactive fiction novel with a social theme. In one corner is your diorama, which is way cool ... except for the missing toy cow, that is. That cow cost 4 dollars out of your allowance. It was there when you brought in the diorama yesterday,...


Platforms: Mac

The Case of Samuel Gregor is a free interactive fiction novel with a surreal and travel theme. There is a knock at the door of your office. Without waiting for an answer, the Dean of the university walks into your working quarters, followed by three gentlemen sharply dressed in charcoal suits....


Platforms: Mac

A free horror novel for your Mac Dining With the Alien is a free interactive fiction novel with a horror theme. You pry your eyes open. The room is a bit blurry. Mouth feels like an already dead bird died in it again. What the hell happened last night? Oh. Yeah. That happened. Xrys???*a*? alien...


Platforms: Mac

Inform 7 is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language.


Platforms: *nix

While everyone is playing fancy CPU burning games, some people in this world continue to worship the art of interactive fiction, AKA text-adventures. A forgotten genre in gaming, a micro universe that hides some of the world's most beautifully crafted phrases and stories. MechaniQue is an...


Platforms: JVM

Your past is a jumble of dimly lit mirrors, reflecting disassociated images... desolate parking lots... whispering distant trees... a sense of sorrow and suspended time... a night without end. You know that there is more, but what? Who are you? Where are you? All paths lead to the building -- the...


Platforms: Mac

The goal of the BlueSphere Project is to build a flexible, expandable, and easy-to-use authoring system for all forms of interactive fiction. The present focus of this project is on the development of a new interpreted programming language.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

A multiplatform game engine for interactive fiction experiences. It makes use of JLayer API, available at http://www.javazoom.net/javalayer/javalayer.html


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

A warehouse of utilities and story source-code for Inform-based interactive fiction stories. Include simple examples of how to write inform, to libraries of useful utilities and objects, to full game source-code.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Python Universe Builder (PUB) is an Interactive Fiction module for Python. It provides a programming environment similar to that of Inform or TADS but runs under any Python interpreter.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Very simple Python engine for text based adventures(interactive fiction).


Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux

In computer games and interactive fiction, situations or dialogs are often linked together in a tree or mesh structure. The Situflow project aims at creating a visual editor and simulator for meshes of situations and the transitions between them.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

ZLR is a Z-Machine interpreter designed to run modern interactive fiction games.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

A set of tools for working with the ZIL interactive fiction language, including a compiler, assembler, disassembler, and game library.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

ZPlet is an interpreter for programs using the Z-Machine virtual machine invented by Infocom for their interactive fiction. This fork of ZPlet implements basic support for files in Z-Machine Blorb format (.zblorb) generated by the Inform 7 compiler.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Cerulean Stowaway is a free interactive fiction novel with a fantasy theme. The aliens come from the planet Cerul, so they???*a*?re called the Ceruleans, even though that word already means something else. Most people don???*a*?t care what the name means, though. They???*a*?re only interested in...


Platforms: Mac