Hacker News
- 30th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition https://ifcomp.org 3 comments
- Inform is a programming language for creating interactive fiction https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/ 32 comments
- GPT-3 can create both sides of an Interactive Fiction transcript https://old.reddit.com/r/interactivefiction/comments/ycf8ol/gpt3_does_an_astonishingly_good_job_creating_both/ 68 comments
- Winners of the 2021 Interactive Fiction Competition https://ifcomp.org/comp/2021 2 comments
- Writing web-based interactive fiction with Ink https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/web-tutorial/ 9 comments
- Get Lamp (Interactive Fiction Documentary by Jason Scott) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o15itQ_EhRo 3 comments
- Quixe: A VM for Interactive Fiction Written in JavaScript http://www.eblong.com/zarf/glulx/quixe/ 6 comments
- Inform: A Language for Interactive Fiction http://www.inform7.com 50 comments
- Playfic - a platform for writing and playing interactive fiction. http://playfic.com/ 4 comments
- Galatea, by Emily Short (interactive fiction) http://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A%2F%2Fparchment.toolness.com%2Fif-archive%2Fgames%2Fzcode%2FGalatea.zblorb.js 4 comments
- Curveship, a new interactive fiction framework http://curveship.com/ 12 comments
- From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/from-infocom-to-80-days-an-oral-history-of-text-games-and-interactive-fiction/ 74 comments
Lobsters
- Dialog: An Inform 7 and Prolog inspired language for interactive fiction https://linusakesson.net/dialog/ 3 comments games , plt
- How to implement an interactive fiction engine (e.g. Zork) in Clojure/Clojurescript? https://www.choiceofgames.com/make-your-own-games/choicescript-intro/ 10 comments clojure
- Introductory article to interactive fiction (aka text adventures) https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/o69epv/introductory_article_to_interactive_fiction_aka/ 6 comments gamedev
- I wrote a bit on what modern developers might learn from interactive fiction https://medium.com/odplot-thoughts/interactive-fiction-for-the-modern-game-designer-88bd22f048c2#.19da7xmvq 4 comments gamedev
- Interactive Guide to NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books http://www.sfsignal.com/interactive/npr100.htm 12 comments books
- Rule-Based Programming in Interactive Fiction http://eblong.com/zarf/essays/rule-based-if/ 4 comments compsci
- Curveship: an interactive fiction engine in Python, now on github http://curveship.com/ 6 comments programming
- Fashion Quest, Alpha 2 (Shoes-driven Interactive Fiction Framework) http://mikecantelon.com/story/fashion-quest-10-alpha-2 7 comments ruby
- Lists and lists - An interactive fiction introduction into Lisp by Andrew Plotkin http://parchment.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/parchment.html?story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifarchive.org%2Fif-archive%2Fgames%2Fzcode%2Flists.z5 4 comments lisp
- Rule-Based Programming in Interactive Fiction http://www.eblong.com/zarf/essays/rule-based-if/index.html 25 comments programming
- The Z-machine: Infocom's VM for interactive fiction http://www.inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point0/index.html 6 comments programming
- Natural Language, Semantic Analysis and Interactive Fiction - Graham Nelson http://www.inform-fiction.org/i7downloads/documents/whitepaper.pdf 14 comments programming
- Choosing a Language for Interactive Fiction:surely the most bizarre language domain ever. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/11/24/interactive_fiction.html 2 comments reddit.com
- GPT-3 does an astonishingly good job creating both sides of an Interactive Fiction transcript https://www.reddit.com/r/interactivefiction/comments/ycf8ol/gpt3_does_an_astonishingly_good_job_creating_both/ 7 comments artificial
- Dungeon Memalign - Tiny, mobile-friendly interactive fiction game w/source https://memalign.github.io/m/dungeon/index.html 3 comments programming
- A history of the Text Adventure Development System (TADS), a programming language created for amateur developers to make interactive fiction games http://www.filfre.net/2017/02/tads/ 7 comments programming
- It's way beyond my competency, but if anyone else is looking for a project, I'd love to see an engine/design system for this sort of game, similar to the way Inform facilitates the creation of interactive fiction. http://blog.keiththompsonart.com/2011/05/black-white-atmosphere.html 7 comments gamedev
- Lets help Zarf (Andrew Plotkin) quit his job and write interactive fiction full time! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zarf/hadean-lands-interactive-fiction-for-the-iphone 18 comments programming
- Guncho -- an online system for multiplayer interactive fiction based on Inform 7. http://www.guncho.com/ 7 comments programming
- Alternate reality games such as "Why So Serious?" are a new kind of interactive fiction, one that blurs the line between entertainment and advertising, as well as between fiction and reality, in ways barely imagined a decade earlier. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/138575-the-art-of-immersion/ 3 comments technology
- World-first 'touchable holographic basketballs' developed - The achievement recreates a feature seen in science fiction such as Star Trek’s holodeck where characters can interact with solid-seeming computer simulations of people, objects and places https://www.avinteractive.com/news/world-first-touchable-holograms-developed-08-09-2021/ 3 comments futurology
- ink-mode - Write interactive fiction in Emacs https://github.com/kungsgeten/ink-mode 3 comments emacs
- New visual editor (free, web-based) for Interactive Fiction / Adventure Stories / Narrative-based games: inklewriter - just entered public beta. Let me know what you think! http://www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter 5 comments gamedev
- Encrusted - a z-machine interpreter for Infocom-era interactive fiction games like Zork https://sterlingdemille.com/encrusted/ 5 comments rust
- I'm making GodAI, a storytelling program powered by GPT. My goal is to combine the best features of text-based games and text editing into a powerful general-purpose story writing and interactive fiction client. https://awk.itch.io/godai 20 comments artificial
Lambda the Ultimate
- Inform 7: A relational DSL for interactive fiction with natural language syntax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_fiction 16 comments DSL
- Natural Language Programming for Interactive Fiction http://www.inform-fiction.org/I7/Welcome.html 10 comments LtU Forum
- Choosing a Language for Interactive Fiction http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/11/24/interactive_fiction.html 6 comments Fun