Interactive Fiction Links These links to Web sites related to interactive fiction are compiled from the "Top 10 Picks for IF" column in back issues of XYZZYnews.
404 Error: Now What
The error page on this site takes you right into a nifty PHP version of Zork. Above and Beyond (TADS download)
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/tads/above.gam Adventure Classic Gaming
http://www.adventureclassicgaming.com
Adventure Classic Gaming is dedicated to classic and retro adventure gaming, covering both classic adventure games and interactive fiction on all computer and console gaming platforms. Adventureland
http://www.lysator.liu.se/adventure/ The Amazing Toaster Contest
http://www.ministryofpeace.com/if/toaster%2Dcomp/ Arrrrgh! I'm stuck already...
Just wanted to share with you all a series of great IF-related comic strips I saw on userfriendly.org -- these five strips are meant to be read in order:
- Arrrrgh! I'm stuck already...
- I'm trying to open a window with a garden hose.
- What happens when it dies?
- Don't move! You might be eaten by a grue!
- What does a grue look like anyway?
http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/gamespotting/042503kuribosshoe/10.html Baf's Guide to the Interactive Fiction Archive
http://www.escape.com/~baf/if/ Brass Lantern
http://www.brasslantern.org/ Brian Moriarty on Text RPGs and Skotos Tech
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20010409/adams_01.htm
(registration required)
CMU School of Computer Science Oz Project Home Page
http://128.2.209.79/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/oz/web/oz.html Colossal Cave Adventure Page
http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/ Creative Adventure Toolkit
http://www.richmond62.freeserve.co.uk/ Don Woods' Home Page
http://www.iCynic.com/~don/ Fredrik's Interactive Fiction Starter's Kit
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6116/ifstart.html EPOC Interactive Fiction Homepage
http://www.geocities.com/epocif/ 2Establishing A Market for Adventure Games Overseas
Frobozz Magic Video Poker
http://webpages.csus.edu/~sac59848/software/fmvpoker.html Frobnitz, a Z-Machine Interpreter for Palm
http://member.newsguy.com/~hangard/frobnitz/ http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/3222/frotz.html Full Moon in San Francisco
http://www.alternativegames.ca/fullmoongame GameSpot (includes walkthrough for Zork Nemesis)
http://www.gamespot.com/ GameWorld.com
http://www.gameworld.com/ Gav and Peloso's Interactive Story
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/neutronics/gav/wayfarence/welcome.html The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers
http://www.dadgum.com/glist/list.html Grues are everywhere, man! They're like Starbuck's...
Another great Userfriendly.org cartoon...
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20010618 The Great Interactive Fiction Excerpt Hunt
http://members.aol.com/jdyer41/contest.html The Great Underground Empire Home Page
http://www.frobozzmagicco.com/ Help! Where do I download IF stuff for my computer?
http://www.bright.net/~jonadab/if/ Helpful Man 1.0
(PC download)
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/pc/helpwin1.zip Hyperizons: Hypertext Fiction
http://www.duke.edu/~mshumate/hyperfic.html I Have No Words and I Must Design
http://www.costik.com/nowords.html IF Quake
http://loonyboi.com/if/quake/ IF-Review
http://www.ministryofpeace.com/if-review/ iFiction
http://www.ifiction.org Infocom Documentation Project
http://infodoc.plover.net Infocom Fact Sheet compiled by Paul David Doherty
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/infocom/info/fact-sheet.txt Infocom Homepage (by Peter Scheyen)
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pete/Infocom/ The Infocom Page by Bruce A. Smith
http://hometown.aol.com/sharruce/ The Infocom Walkthrough Archives
http://home.earthlink.net/~phantoman/infocom/ Inform en Espagnol
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Fortress/9939/ Inform Home Page
http://www.inform-fiction.org/ Interactive Fiction According to Fredrik
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6116/if.html Interactive Fiction - Suite 101.com
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/interactive_fiction Interactive Fiction (IF) Authorship
http://www.duke.edu/~srg3/IFAuthorship.html Interactive Fiction Authorship FAQ
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/games/interactive-fiction/authoring/part1/ Interactive Fiction Basement
The Z-machine is an imaginary computer, running adventure games that are intended to be completely portable to any kind of computer. This portability has been made possible by game developers' collective willingness to constrain maximum as well as minimum levels of performance. Kevin Bracey and Jason Penney have revised and published a Z-Machine Standard 1.1 Proposal that will likely be put to a vote shortly.Interactive Fiction for the PalmPilot
If this sounds interesting, you can get in on the discussion on the Z-machine mailing list. To subscribe send an e-mail to majordomo@gmd.de with "subscribe z-machine" (without the quotes) in the body of the message.
http://www.refalo.com/palm/interactive.htm Interactive Fiction Markup Language (IFML)
http://ifml.sourceforge.net 'Invisiclues' for Andrew Plotkin's game So Far (written by Lucian Smith)
http://www.bioc.rice.edu/~lpsmith/IF/sofar.html Just Adventure
http://www.justadventure.com/ Last Half of Darkness (Web-based game)
http://www.lasthalfofdarkness.com/ Lobotomo Software's Mac OSX port of Adv 2.5 http://www.lobotomo.com/products/Adventure/index.html maddog world
http://www.maddog.com/ The Magnetic Scrolls Chronicles
http://www.8ung.at/magneticscrolls/ Mr. Bill's Adventure Game Web Site
http://www.mrbillsadventureland.com/ The New Zork Times and The Status Line
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/Articles/NZT/ Pentari First Light
Plugh Main Page
http://games.xyzzy.net/ Quest from Axe Software
http://www.axeuk.com/quest/
Adventure game creation system for Windows.Quest Home Page
http://admin.engr.wisc.edu/quest/ rec.arts.int-fiction Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.plover.net/~textfire/raiffaq/ SLAG: A Z-Machine Hint System
http://www.piratehaven.org/~beej/slag/ SmoochieComp 2001
http://emshort.home.mindspring.com/smoochie.htm Solving Electronic Adventures
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/Articles/solving.html SpeedIF
http://www.wurb.com/if/award/8 Storytelling in Computer Games Past, Present and Future (UWEC Panel featuring Scott Adams)
The TADS Page
http://www.tela.bc.ca/tela/tads/ Text Adventures on a Newton Information Page
http://www.scrawlsoft.com/products/yazi/info.html The Rise and Fall of Infocom
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/Articles/rise.html Tolkien text adventure games
http://www.lysator.liu.se/tolkien-games/adventures.html The Unending Addventure
http://www.addventure.com/addventure/game2/ Unix Frotz -- A Z-Machine Interpreter for Unix
http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~dgriffi/proj/frotz/ Westfront PC
http://www.geocities.com/dunric/westfront.html Worlds Apart
http://www.igs.net/~tril/worlds/ Writing and Playing Inform Games
http://www.citycafe.com/if/ Z-Machine Standard 1.1 Proposal
http://www.jczorkmid.net/~jpenney/ZSpec11-draft3.txt Zork The Undiscovered Underground, Hints for
http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/solutions/slag/ztuuinv.z5