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.

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,...

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

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

A free science fiction novel for your Mac Fallacy of Dawn is a free interactive fiction novel with a science fiction theme. Benji???*a*?s Arcade is an anachronistic and wholly out-of-place vermin lair that has affixed itself to the body of the city like an itchy, raw lesion. It???*a*?s also one...


Platforms: Mac

Macao is a framework based on Javascript and DHTML to build animated interactive homepages. It is intended to build graphic adventures and other animated interactive fiction. Macao-based games dont need any plugin and can be hosted on static Web servers. The framework comes with a...


Platforms: *nix

La villa del seis is a multiplatform point-and-click graphical adventure in PHP and DHTML. Also, you can play it like a text adventure (interactive fiction) on a text browser or without javascript. You can use the motor to make your own adventure


Platforms: PHP

A free fantasy novel for your Mac Falling Angel is a free interactive fiction novel with a fantasy theme. Once a blessed angel gifted with wings and beauty, you stand now defiled at the exit from Hell. Lucifer has a grip on your soul, but for the moment, you remain free from the claims of heaven...


Platforms: Mac

A free social novel for your Mac The Farthest Shore is a free interactive fiction novel with a social theme. Hungry, confused, desperate, you curl up in the dinghy looking out into the bleak emptiness. Too tired for questions, your mind drifts through imagination after torrid imagination as you...


Platforms: Mac