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Software genre
Interactive fiction (IF) is software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Works
Interactive_fiction
Video games database
The Interactive Fiction Database (IFDB) is a database of metadata and reviews of interactive fiction, founded in 2007. In November 2023, the database contained
Interactive_Fiction_Database
Annual competition for interactive fiction
The Interactive Fiction Competition (also known as IFComp) is one of several annual competitions for works of interactive fiction. It has been held since
Interactive Fiction Competition
Interactive_Fiction_Competition
Narrative with imaginary elements
late-19th and early-20th centuries, including popular-fiction magazines and early film. Interactive fiction was developed in the late-20th century through video
Fiction
The Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation (IFTF) is a nonprofit charitable organization founded on June 30, 2016, working to maintain, improve, and
Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation
Interactive_Fiction_Technology_Foundation
Video game series
The Interactive Fiction Collections is a 1995 video game series developed by Infocom and published by Activision for the PC and classic Mac OS. The Interactive
Interactive Fiction Collections
Interactive_Fiction_Collections
Digital entertainment in which the storyline is not predetermined
experimental prototypes in the same genre. Interactive storytelling is defined as distinct from interactive fiction (or IF), as well as video games with strong
Interactive_storytelling
Genre of electronic literature
seen in interactive fiction. The term can also be used to describe traditionally published books in which a nonlinear narrative and interactive narrative
Hypertext_fiction
Type of literature available primarily or solely on the Internet
their interactive aspects allowing creators, readers, and other users to communicate with one another and create new communities. Web fiction platforms
Web_fiction
Video game genre
the player to interact with objects at a basic level, for example by typing "get key". Later text adventures, and modern interactive fiction, use natural
Adventure_game
American author (born 1931)
in which the reader chooses what happens, has come to be called "interactive fiction". Packard wrote many other children's books as well, and is also
Edward_Packard_(writer)
2012 video game
Counterfeit Monkey is a 2012 interactive fiction espionage game by Emily Short. The game is set in Anglophone Atlantis, the world's greatest center for
Counterfeit_Monkey
Meaningless noun
David Gerrold.[example needed] The phrase is the namesake of an interactive fiction game called The Gostak, written by Carl Muckenhoupt. Most of the
Gostak
Interactive media genre
An interactive film (also known as interactive drama) is a video game or other interactive media that has characteristics of a cinematic film. In the
Interactive_film
Programming language and design system
Inform is a programming language and design system for interactive fiction originally created in 1993 by Graham Nelson. Inform can generate programs designed
Inform
2005 video game
Façade is a 2005 interactive storytelling video game by Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern. Conceived by the developers as an "interactive drama", Façade tasks
Façade_(video_game)
Literary works created for digital devices
digital medium, and the first early text-based games were created. Interactive fiction became a popular genre in the late 1970s and 1980s, with a thriving
Electronic_literature
American software engineer, composer and author
co-author of two books on software and management. He co-created two interactive fiction games, Rover's Day Out and Hoosegow. Collins-Sussman lives and works
Ben_Collins-Sussman
English video game company
series. Inkle has also created inklewriter, a tool for creating interactive fiction that was online from 2012 until 2018. inklewriter was subsequently
Inkle_(company)
American computer programmer
analyst and entrepreneur. He is credited with coining the term "interactive fiction" and was an early software developer in the field. Lafore worked
Robert_Lafore
Electronic game with user interface and visual feedback
with video games as a storytelling medium, one that arises out of interactive fiction. Murray puts video games in the context of the Holodeck, a fictional
Video_game
American video game developer (born 1987)
video game developer, programmer, and writer. Quinn developed the interactive fiction game Depression Quest, which was released in 2013. In 2014, a blog
Zoë_Quinn
Literary genre
literarily described, like MUDs and interactive fiction. Typically, the main character in a LitRPG novel is consciously interacting with the game or game-like
LitRPG
American software company
based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that produced numerous works of interactive fiction. They also produced a business application, a relational database
Infocom
gaming interactive media often incorporates artificial intelligence and responsive narrative with increasing regularity. The use of VR in crime fiction education
Virtual_reality_in_fiction
Video game that uses text characters
interactive fiction) are text-based games wherein worlds are described in the narrative and the player submits typically simple commands to interact with
Text-based_game
2016 video game
Choices: Stories You Play is a 2016 interactive fiction game developed by Pixelberry Studios. In the game, players choose from multiple stories that are
Choices:_Stories_You_Play
1976 video game
player's attempted actions. It is the first well-known example of interactive fiction, as well as the first well-known adventure game, for which it was
Colossal_Cave_Adventure
1977 video game
player's commands. It has been described as the most famous piece of interactive fiction. The original game, developed between 1977 and 1979 at the Massachusetts
Zork
1915 novel by John Buchan
digital adaptation. In 2008, Penguin Books adapted the story as interactive fiction under the authorship of Charles Cumming calling it The 21 Steps.
The_Thirty-Nine_Steps
2019 interactive fiction video game
Erica is an interactive film video game developed by Flavourworks and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It was originally released for the
Erica_(video_game)
British writer and filmmaker (1921–1994)
attention of Robert L. Lippert, who hired Clavell to write the science-fiction horror movie The Fly (1958). This became a hit and launched Clavell as
James_Clavell
2000 video game
Shade is an interactive fiction video game developed by Andrew Plotkin for MS-DOS and self-published in 2000. Shade opens with the nameless protagonist
Shade_(video_game)
Collection of video games from 1996
collection of 33 computer games from interactive fiction pioneer Infocom, and the top 6 winners of the 1995 Interactive Fiction Competition, released in 1996
Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom
Classic_Text_Adventure_Masterpieces_of_Infocom
Fiction written in text-message or instant messaging
which also has a focus on interactive fiction, and Tap, developed by the online publishing platform Wattpad. Chat fiction stories are presented as digital
Chat_fiction
Video games in the World of Darkness series
"Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption for PC Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on March 30, 2019. Retrieved November 17
List of World of Darkness video games
List_of_World_of_Darkness_video_games
English writer and humourist (1952–2001)
with science fiction, he stated that he was not a science fiction writer but rather a comedy writer working in the genre of science fiction simply because
Douglas_Adams
Book series
Forking Paths Twistaplot Usborne Puzzle Adventure series Visual novel Interactive fiction Under a special warning on page 1 of Inside UFO 54-40, the reader
Choose_Your_Own_Adventure
2018 interactive film by David Slade
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is a 2018 interactive film in the science fiction anthology series Black Mirror. It was written by series creator Charlie Brooker
Black_Mirror:_Bandersnatch
British video game designer
announced he had joined the interactive media firm Interlude, later rebranded as Eko, to help them develop an interactive media reboot of the 1983 film
Sam_Barlow_(game_designer)
American science fiction game award
role-playing game systems and an interactive film. The first year's award was won by Charlie Brooker for the interactive film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch;
Nebula Award for Best Game Writing
Nebula_Award_for_Best_Game_Writing
American video game developer
company was founded by Bob Bates and Mike Verdu, both veterans of the interactive fiction studio Infocom that shut down in 1989. Legend's first two games,
Legend_Entertainment
2000 video game
Galatea is an interactive fiction video game by Emily Short featuring a modern rendition of the Greek myth of Galatea, the sculpture of a woman that gained
Galatea_(video_game)
2017 video game
Wikipedia: The Text Adventure is an indie interactive fiction browser game developed by the London-based Kevan Davis. It was released in 2017, and pulls
Wikipedia – The Text Adventure
Wikipedia_–_The_Text_Adventure
Author and creator of interactive fiction
Lynda Clark (born 29 October 1981) is an author and creator of interactive fiction. Her short story, “Ghillie’s Mum” won the Commonwealth Short Story
Lynda_Clark_(author)
American fantasy author (born 1984)
Time War, written with Amal El-Mohtar, won the 2019 BSFA Award for Short Fiction and the 2019 Nebula Award for Best Novella. Empress of Forever (2019),
Max_Gladstone
Narrative-focused video game genre
few interactive choices. Nitroplus, who specializes in utsuge titles like Saya no Uta: The Song of Saya (2003) for example, has two interactive choices
Visual_novel
2014 video game
Episode is an interactive fiction software and video game developed by Pocket Gems for mobile devices. It is a virtual storytelling network and platform
Episode_(video_game)
American speculative fiction writer (born 1959)
co-founded the Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad. He was Magic Leap's chief futurist from 2014
Neal_Stephenson
Type of work of printed fiction
TSR, Inc's short-lived "Terror TRAX" line). Adventure game Interactive film Interactive fiction List of gamebooks Nonlinear narrative Visual novel The Evolution
Gamebook
2015 adventure video game
2017. Retrieved August 30, 2018. "Interactive Fiction Games - Lifeline Universe | Big Fish Games". Interactive Fiction Games - Lifeline Universe | Big Fish
Lifeline_(2015_video_game)
2008 video game
Snack Time! is a 2008 interactive fiction work by Renee Choba, which she co-authored with Hardy the Bulldog, who also features as the player character
Snack_Time!
Computer program for understanding natural language
SHRDLU is considered the first known formal example of interactive fiction, as the user interacts with simple commands to move objects around a virtual
SHRDLU
American sociologist, author and Celtic harpist
Judith Pintar is a sociologist and author of interactive fiction. As the Director of the Game Studies and Design Program, she teaches game studies, narrative
Judith_Pintar
Free and open-source tool for making interactive fiction in the form of web pages
free open-source tool created by Chris Klimas for making interactive fiction and hypertext fiction in the form of web pages. It is available on macOS, Windows
Twine_(software)
Video game genre
genre, given their "sufficiently advanced physics engine/systems that interact with both player verbs and mechanics and level design" and emphasis on
Immersive_sim
1993 video game
an interactive fiction computer game created by Graham Nelson in 1993. Appearing in the beginning of the non-commercial era of interactive fiction, it
Curses_(video_game)
1984 video game
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an interactive fiction video game based on the comedic science fiction series of the same name. It was designed
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game)
The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(video_game)
Topics referred to by the same term
Xyzzy (mnemonic), memory trick used in mathematics XYZZY Awards, for interactive fiction Zzyzx (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated
Xyzzy
Interactive fiction writer
Emily Short is an interactive fiction (IF) writer. From 2020 to 2023, she was creative director of Failbetter Games, the studio behind Fallen London and
Emily_Short
US video game developer
Games LLC is a video game developer based in California that creates interactive fiction. They create their games in the custom-made ChoiceScript programming
Choice_of_Games
American video game holding company
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (sometimes shortened to Take 2 Interactive or T2) is an American video game holding company based in New York City
Take-Two_Interactive
Annual awards for works of interactive fiction
The XYZZY Awards are the annual awards given to works of interactive fiction, serving a similar role to the Academy Awards for film. The awards were inaugurated
XYZZY_Awards
Topics referred to by the same term
videogame by Virgin Games, now Avalon Interactive Group, Ltd. James Clavell's Shōgun, a 1989 interactive fiction computer game from Infocom Shogun (toolbox)
Shogun_(disambiguation)
Literary genre
Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is the genre of speculative fiction that imagines advanced and futuristic changes in technology
Science_fiction
1998 video game
of interactive fiction, and written in Inform. It has received both praise and criticism for its heavy focus on fiction rather than on interactivity. It
Photopia
Topics referred to by the same term
rank-into-rank axiom in set theory I-0 (video game), a piece of interactive fiction written by Adam Cadre IO (disambiguation) (the letter "I" followed
I0
1988 video game
Corruption is an interactive fiction game by Magnetic Scrolls released in 1988. In this game, a successful stockbroker suddenly finds himself embroiled
Corruption_(1988_video_game)
2017 autobiographical hypertext fiction by Dan Hett
game or hypertext fiction written in Twine. The story is written in the second person, following the convention of interactive fiction. While the game has
C_ya_laterrrr
American novelist
Shannon Gilligan is an author of interactive fiction and computer games. Gilligan graduated from Williams College in 1981 and spent a year abroad at Doshisha
Shannon_Gilligan
1991 video game
Treasures of Infocom is a 1991 compilation of 20 previously released interactive fiction games developed by Infocom. It was published by Activision for MS-DOS
The_Lost_Treasures_of_Infocom
1999 video game
Aisle is a 1999 interactive fiction video game whose major innovation is to allow only a single move and offer from it over a hundred possible outcomes
Aisle_(video_game)
American comedy troupe
coined the term "Interactive Adventures" to describe the series). The Time Machine: An Interactive Adventure was the first interactive movie on YouTube
Chad,_Matt_&_Rob
British video game developer
Failbetter Games Ltd is a British video game developer and interactive fiction studio based in London. Founded in 2009 by Alexis Kennedy and Paul Arendt
Failbetter_Games
Early american video game researcher
emotional and cultural impact of videogames. Buckles' dissertation, "Interactive Fiction: The Computer Storygame ‘Adventure’", gained attention twenty years
Mary_Ann_Buckles
Set of multimedia webcomics by Andrew Hussie
written in serial works or "adventures" in a manner that parodied interactive fiction games. The characters' actions were originally driven by commands
MS_Paint_Adventures
1983 video game
Suspended: A Cryogenic Nightmare is an interactive fiction video game written by Michael Berlyn and published by Infocom in 1983. Infocom's sixth game
Suspended_(video_game)
Fictional rogue computer operator
adventure game written by Howard A. Sherman, which took part in the 2002 Interactive Fiction Competition and was placed 26th out of 38. Simon Travaglia (born
Bastard_Operator_From_Hell
Video game developer (born 1972)
developed browser-based interactive fiction, including Fallen London and a platform called Story Nexus for other interactive fiction. The company later developed
Alexis_Kennedy
Text adventure game generated by artificial intelligence
chooseyourstory.com (an online community website of content inspired by interactive gamebooks, written by contributors of multiple skill levels, using logic
AI_Dungeon
Topics referred to by the same term
video game Vampire: The Masquerade (Choice of Games), a line of interactive fiction video games Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, a 2025 video
Vampire: The Masquerade (disambiguation)
Vampire:_The_Masquerade_(disambiguation)
Term in computing
first adventure games and one of the first interactive fiction pieces, hundreds of later interactive fiction games included responses to the command "xyzzy"
Xyzzy_(computing)
British writer and broadcaster (1953–2025)
of Bargepole – a collection of his Punch columns Bywater co-wrote interactive fiction games with Douglas Adams such as Bureaucracy, the unreleased Milliways
Michael_Bywater
2013 video game
Retrieved 31 July 2014. Jeff Cork (29 October 2013). "The Next Step In Interactive Fiction - Device 6". Game Informer. Archived from the original on 29 May
Device_6
Canadian video game development studio
Softworks sued Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Behaviour Interactive over Westworld, a mobile game based on the science fiction television series Westworld
Behaviour_Interactive
2014 video game
The Uncle Who Works for Nintendo is a horror-themed interactive fiction video game, developed by Michael Lutz and released via browser on October 15,
The Uncle Who Works for Nintendo
The_Uncle_Who_Works_for_Nintendo
1981 video game
Antiquarian. Retrieved July 9, 2014. "Softporn Adventure source code". Interactive Fiction Archive. Retrieved September 11, 2025. Nooney, Laine (December 2
Softporn_Adventure
2015 anthology of video games writing
Conversation is an anthology of readings of video games created in interactive fiction authoring tool Twine. The collection was curated and edited by merritt
Videogames_for_Humans
American video game-developing company
SynTrend. Some time before their demise, Synapse had started work on interactive fiction games (or as they called them, "Electronic Novels"). The games were
Synapse_Software
American poet & digital media professor
literary riddles. Montfort has written about interactive fiction and written several interactive fiction games. Book and Volume (2005) was a finalist
Nick_Montfort
1986 video game
that one hardly notices that this is probably the least interactive piece of interactive fiction ever made". Compute! stated that the combination of Disch's
Amnesia_(1986_video_game)
1995 video game
The Cypher is an interactive fiction video game by EPG Multimedia. The Cypher is a digital interactive fiction novel in eight episodic chapters that explores
The_Cypher_(video_game)
Virtual machine for interactive fiction games
ZIL. Inform has become popular in the interactive fiction community. A large proportion of interactive fiction is in the form of Z-machine story files
Z-machine
2005 video game
Vespers is an interactive fiction game written in 2005 by Jason Devlin that placed first at the 2005 Interactive Fiction Competition. It also won the XYZZY
Vespers_(video_game)
British writer of interactive fiction
of interactive fiction and co-founder of inkle, where he co-directed and co-wrote 80 Days, and wrote Heaven's Vault and Overboard!. His interactive fiction
Jon_Ingold
Type of web novels made in South Korea
in South Korea (Korean: 웹소설; Hanja: 웹小說; RR: Wepsoseol; "web novel; web fiction") are novels first released on the web and typically published in serialized
Web_novels_in_South_Korea
1992 video game
Doom at GameFAQs Classic DOS Games has all of the Hugo III shareware demos for download. Hugo III, Jungle of Doom! in the Interactive Fiction Database
Hugo_III,_Jungle_of_Doom!
Topics referred to by the same term
Savoir-faire, a French phrase used by English speakers Savoir-Faire, interactive fiction by Emily Short Savoir Faire (barge), a European cargo vessel built
Savoir_faire
American video game developer and publisher
Vulcan Fury. V.R.T.O., founded in 1991 as Acme Interactive, sold to Malibu Comics in 1992 as Malibu Interactive, sold to GameTek in 1994 as Padded Cell Studios
Interplay_Entertainment
Author and game designer
standalone crime thriller Up Close and Fatal was published in 2022. Early interactive fiction titles and PC CD games Sherwood Forest – Delta 4 The Dragonstar Trilogy
Fergus_McNeill
INTERACTIVE FICTION
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Girl/Female
Afghan, Arabic, Australian, Indian, Muslim
Fiction; Romance; Story
Boy/Male
French
Fictional swordsman: (ambitious and filled with religious aspirations) from Alexander Dumas's...
Boy/Male
French Greek
Cyrano de Bergerac was a seventeenth-century soldier and science-fiction writer.
Boy/Male
English
The fictional character Jorel father of Superman.
Boy/Male
Australian, French
Fictional Swordsman; Ambitious and Filled with Religious Aspirations; From Alexander Dumas's Three Musketeers
Surname or Lastname
English and French (Léonard)
English and French (Léonard) : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements leo ‘lion’ (a late addition to the vocabulary of Germanic name elements, taken from Latin) + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’, which was taken to England by the Normans. A saint of this name, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th century, but about whom nothing is known except for a largely fictional life dating from half a millennium later, was popular throughout Europe in the early Middle Ages and was regarded as the patron of peasants and horses.Irish (Fermanagh) : adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Fhionáin or of Langan.Americanized form of Italian Leonardo or cognate forms in other European languages.The French Léonard family were at Château Richer, Quebec, by 1698, having come from Maine, France.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Mighty Spearman; The Fictional Character Jorel Father of Superman
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, English, French
Mighty Spearman; The Fictional Character Jorel Father of Superman
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Good Looking; Interactive; Brightness
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Scandinavian
Farmer; The Fictional Character Jorel Father of Superman; Earth Worker
Boy/Male
English
The fictional character Jorel father of Superman.
Boy/Male
English
The fictional character Jorel father of Superman.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Mighty Spearman; One who Saves; The Fictional Character Jorel Father of Superman
Boy/Male
English
Modern. The fictional character Jorel father of Superman.
INTERACTIVE FICTION
INTERACTIVE FICTION
Girl/Female
Celtic Gaelic American Scottish
From the gray fortress.
Boy/Male
French
From the summer estate.
Girl/Female
Assamese, Indian, Tamil
Full of Grace
Female
Ukrainian
, bitter.
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Jain, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu
Lord Vishnu; Lord of Expression; Lord of the World; Lord Shiva
Girl/Female
Tamil
Flower, Bud
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Telugu
An Ancient Physician
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
One who Dwells in Heaven
Girl/Female
Biblical
Numbering, showing, increase of tribute.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Telugu
Fear; Be Ready; Lord Shiva
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n.
Mutual or reciprocal action or influence; as, the interaction of the heart and lungs on each other.
n.
Mutual action or influence; interaction; as, the interplay of affection.
n.
A writer of fiction.
n.
The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse.
n.
The quality of correlation; reciprocation; interchange; interaction; interdependence.
n.
A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention.
a.
Not tractile; incapable of being drawn out or extended.
n.
An effect of the interaction of the actions of two agents such that the result of the combined action is greater than expected as a simple additive combination of the two agents acting separately. Also synergism.
n.
The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.
a.
Cleaving or sticking like wax.
n.
A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity.
n.
See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
n.
An imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called Utopia, as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics, laws, and the like. See Utopia, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
n.
Intermediate action.
n.
A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
n.
A hypocritical devotee. See the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
a.
Having the power to prohibit; as, an interdictive sentence.
a.
Made and operated by interaction of forces without a directing intelligence; as, a mechanical universe.
a.
Repeating.
a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic.