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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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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known as bibliographic and numeric databases, constituted a new type of information resource. Online interactive retrieval became commercially viable...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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A View to a Kill (video game) (category 1980s interactive fiction)
QuestBusters. July 1986. pp. 1–2. Retrieved 18 August 2016. A View to a Kill: The Computer Game at MobyGames A View to a Kill in the Interactive Fiction Database...
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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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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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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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Colossal Adventure (category 1980s interactive fiction)
"Crash Magazine 004" – via Internet Archive. "The Spectrum Show" – via Internet Archive. Game manual Colossal Adventure in the Interactive Fiction Database...
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A Change in the Weather (category 1990s interactive fiction)
A Change in the Weather is a 1995 interactive fiction (IF) video game. Developed by Andrew Plotkin, the game is written in version five of the Inform...
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The Colour of Magic (video game) (category 1980s interactive fiction)
February 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2014. The Colour of Magic at SpectrumComputing.co.uk The Colour of Magic in the Interactive Fiction Database v t e...
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Gateway (video game) (category 1990s interactive fiction)
Frederik Pohl's Gateway is a 1992 interactive fiction video game released by Legend Entertainment, and written by Glen Dahlgren and Mike Verdu. It is...
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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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November 1993". "Jeux & stratégie 47". October 1987. Uninvited at MobyGames Uninvited at Interactive Fiction Database Portals: 1980s Horror Video games...
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Rendezvous with Rama (video game) (category 1980s interactive fiction)
of Computer Adventure Game History by Howard Feldman Rendezvous with Rama at MobyGames Rendezvous with Rama in the Interactive Fiction Database v t e...
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