{"id":1313,"date":"2007-01-10T06:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T06:27:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"Jare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/?p=1313","title":{"rendered":"Interactive Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the wake of the Slamdance fiasco (6 finalists have already dropped), I’m ending up checking the entries. I ran into Book & Volume<\/a>, and thought it might give me new respect for the current state of Interactive Fiction.<\/p>\n

After 5 minutes, it’s only given me despair. It works like a classic text adventure: a bunch of text and a prompt where you write what you want to do. So the game starts: I’m in a room, there’s a pager buzzing. Here’s the series of commands from my first session:<\/p>\n

>look
>pick pager
>get pager
>open pager
>pager
>use pager
>click pager
>look pager
>break pager
>turn off pager<\/i><\/p>\n

GAME OVER. Apparently, I have a finite amount of actions before the pager kills me. Every command I tried was met with the equivalents of "you can’t do that" or "I don’t recognize that verb".<\/p>\n

I have spare time so I’ll try it some more and post in the comments, but boy did I expect things to have improved a bit in the past 25 years.<\/p>\n

Edit:<\/i> It’s obvious this is not a game for me, and it’s somewhat unfair that I criticise it. I’d be interested if someone who appreciates it can explain why. All I’ve found are people who say "it’s great" but don’t really convey a reasoned explanation with comparisons to other games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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