What Is An Interactive Fiction Game?

The first interactive fiction game, also known as a text adventure was released in the late 1980's. One of the first games was called Zork later to have two more Zork games made after it.

Text adventures can be made in many different platforms, but inform 7 allows you to make vertically anything you want. Other platforms may only let you use the tick box options, but everyone has their own opinions.

Interactive fiction games, don't have pictures, well with the odd exception you can add pictures or possibly backing music to your game. But in the late 1980's the only thing you could add was text, that's it.

I prefer to keep an original feel to my games, and to just use text and add minimum modern things to it, but that is for you to decide.

Text adventures appear as one block of text, with a command box. You can examine objects, look around, take stuff, unlock and open chests and so much more.