free interactive fiction are distributed through community websites. These include the Interactive Fiction Database (IFDb), The Interactive Fiction Reviews...
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The Interactive Fiction Database (IFDB) is a database of metadata and reviews of interactive fiction. In November 2023, the database contained 12,969 game...
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2021, IFTF has operated the Interactive Fiction Database (IFDB), a database of metadata and reviews of interactive fiction, which was founded by Michael...
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Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) is a database of bibliographic information on genres considered speculative fiction, including science fiction and related...
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Blue Chairs (category 2000s interactive fiction)
Blue Chairs is an interactive fiction game by American author Chris Klimas. The piece opens at a party, where a man offers the player a bottle of a mysterious...
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Counterfeit Monkey (category 2010s interactive fiction)
Counterfeit Monkey is a 2012 interactive fiction espionage game by Emily Short. The game is set in Anglophone Atlantis, the world's greatest center for...
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The Lurking Horror (category 1980s interactive fiction)
Horror is an interactive fiction game released by Infocom in 1987. The game was written by Dave Lebling and inspired by the horror fiction writings of...
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Photopia (category 1990s interactive fiction)
of interactive fiction, and written in Inform. It has received both praise and criticism for its heavy focus on fiction rather than on interactivity. It...
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known as bibliographic and numeric databases, constituted a new type of information resource. Online interactive retrieval became commercially viable...
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Corruption (1988 video game) (redirect from Corruption (interactive fiction))
Corruption is an interactive fiction game by Magnetic Scrolls released in 1988. In this game, a successful stockbroker suddenly finds himself embroiled...
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The Wizard of Oz (1985 video game) (category 1980s interactive fiction)
The Wizard of Oz is an illustrated interactive fiction game developed by and published by Windham Classics for the Apple II, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, and...
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Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels (category 1980s interactive fiction)
Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels is an interactive fiction game designed by Bob Bates and published by Infocom in 1987. It was released for the...
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role-playing game systems and an interactive film. The first year's award was won by Charlie Brooker for the interactive film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch;...
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Winter Wonderland (game) (category 1990s interactive fiction)
fantasy land. It won the 1999 annual Interactive Fiction Competition. "Winter Wonderland - interactive fiction Database". Retrieved 2023-10-26. "Society for...
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game) (category 1980s interactive fiction)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an interactive fiction video game based on the comedic science fiction series of the same name. It was designed...
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The Uncle Who Works for Nintendo (category 2010s interactive fiction)
The Uncle Who Works for Nintendo is a horror-themed interactive fiction video game, developed by Michael Lutz and released via browser on October 15,...
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The Edifice (category 1990s interactive fiction)
Individual Puzzle. It gained plaudits for its famous "language puzzle". Game entry at Baf's Guide The Edifice in the Interactive Fiction Database v t e...
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Emily Short (category Interactive fiction writers)
Emily Short is an interactive fiction (IF) writer. From 2020 to 2023, she was creative director of Failbetter Games, the studio behind Fallen London and...
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Colossal Cave Adventure (category 1970s interactive fiction)
Adventure at the Interactive Fiction Database with downloadable versions for many platforms Colossal Cave Adventure at the Interactive Fiction Wiki with downloadable...
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2024-08-17. Official website Shadowgate at MobyGames Shadowgate at Interactive Fiction Database Shadowgate can be played for free in the browser at the Internet...
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Judith Pintar (section Interactive fiction)
Judith Pintar is a sociologist and author of interactive fiction. As the Director of the Game Studies and Design Program, she teaches game studies, narrative...
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Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These...
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Spider and Web (category 1990s interactive fiction)
Spider and Web is a piece of interactive fiction written by Andrew Plotkin. Spider and Web begins innocuously enough: the player's character, an apparent...
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Leather Goddesses of Phobos (category 1980s interactive fiction)
Leather Goddesses of Phobos is an interactive fiction video game written by Steve Meretzky and published by Infocom in 1986. It was released for the Amiga...
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Questprobe (category 1980s interactive fiction)
Grand Comics Database Questprobe series at MobyGames Questprobe series at Universal Videogame List Questprobe series at the Interactive Fiction Database...
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Cornerstone (software) (category Desktop database application development tools)
Cornerstone is a relational database for MS-DOS released by Infocom, a company best known in the 1980s for developing interactive fiction video games. Initially...
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Infocom (section Interactive fiction)
that produced numerous works of interactive fiction. They also produced a business application, a relational database called Cornerstone. Infocom was...
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Nine Princes in Amber (video game) (category 1980s interactive fiction)
Nine Princes in Amber is an interactive fiction video game with graphics. The game was published by Telarium, a subsidiary of Spinnaker Software, in 1985...
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James Clavell's Shōgun (category 1980s interactive fiction)
November 2013. Morris, Dave (December 1989). "Computer Games". Games International (11): 53. Infocom-if.org entry Shogun in the Interactive Fiction Database...
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Aisle (video game) (category 1990s interactive fiction)
Aisle is a 1999 interactive fiction video game whose major innovation is to allow only a single move and offer from it over a hundred possible outcomes...
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