INTERACTIVEFICTION

Interactive fiction

Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, is software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Works in this form can be understood as literary narratives and as video games. In common usage, the term refers to text adventures, a type of adventure game where the entire interface can be "text-only". Graphical text adventure games, where the text is accompanied by graphics still fall under the text adventure category if the main way to interact with the game is text. Some users of the term distinguish between "interactive fiction" that ...

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interactive fiction

Noun

  1. Text adventures and their descendants.
  2. A particular game in this style.


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