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| | Interactive fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The player uses text input to control the game and the game state is relayed to the player via text output. | | | Text adventures are one of the oldest types of computer games and form a subset of the adventure genre. | | | Input is usually provided by the player in the form of simple sentences such as "get key" or "go east" which may be handled by a simple parser. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_adventure
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| | Adventure games, online adventure games, text adventures, text adventure games |
| | The linear nature of the old adventure games has now mostly disappeared and the best of the new generation of text adventure games are multi-dimensional in their game play and may be better described, perhaps, as interactive novels - often without end. | | | Alongside the combat related aspects of the game is the huge potential for actual adventure; something which has been lacking in the onilne adventure games and text games genre for some time. | | | The Original online adventure games were text adventure games in which you were faced with puzzles and obstacles to overcome to complete your quest. |
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http://www.online-games.net/newadventuregames.html
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| | Computer Adventures, The Secret Art |
| | What the adventure game specialises in is the interaction of the game with the player. | | | In the `playfield' style arcade adventure games, or those which depend on the use of icons and mice and menus, the total number of locations in the game is often restricted, as is the richness of the game. | | | Nobody plays adventures for the pleasure of seeing their points score, though it is often used to measure whether the player has completed the whole adventure. |
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http://www.amazonsystems.co.uk/data/ca-tsa.htm
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| | Mainframe adventures |
| | However, if one carefully distills the map of the mansion used in the game, it is clear that there is a very clean 3x3x3 grid used in it. | | | This would seem to indicate that Mystery Mansion is influenced by Adventure since it seems unlikely that two game authors would come up with the same idea independently of each other. | | | The reports from people paying the games are probably from the later revisions (there might have been more publicly available versions than the above, of course). |
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http://www.if-legends.org/~adventure/Mainframe_adventures.html
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| | BBC - h2g2 - Infocom Text Adventures |
| | This game is unusual in the pantheon of text adventures; probably the only game where the player’s character can die of a heart attack by making a typo. | | | One of the unique qualities of text adventure games, and especially Infocom games, was the difficulty of the puzzles offered for the player. | | | This was the first text adventure to express the passage of time: the player was required to eat, drink, and sleep in order to continue playing. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A485318
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| | BigKid : Text Adventures for Mobile Phones |
| | Text adventures were the first serious computer games and the move could see a resurgence of commercial viability for the (once) defunct genre. | | | A US company is planning on distributing old text adventures for mobile phones and PDAs, and will pay game authors royalites. |
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http://www.bigkid.com.au/2000/06/13/text_adventures_for_mobile_phones
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| | Text Adventures Poll - Adventure Forums |
| | I agree, Text games are never going to be huge and will probably remain in the freeware sections but I enjoy them and I know a number of others who do as well. | | | In my opinion a text adventure game can be a CYOA, if it has multiple paths to consider for the ending and not only one of them is correct. | | | IF games don't have much of a future though, in terms of being moved to other devices, simply because typing is impractical and tiring for the reader. |
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http://forums.adventuregamers.com/showthread.php?t=7535
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| | Hot Software |
| | An adventure game that is more than a game. | | | HUMBUG is a text adventure with the same humor and feel of the classic Infocom games. | | | Create and play your own text adventure games with this easy-to-use, award-winning package. |
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http://www.worldvillage.com/wv/gamezone/html/downloa2.htm
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| | Text Adventures |
| | In a text adventure, the game explains the scene or situation to the player in words, just like a book, and the player replies in sentences with his instructions. | | | These are small games, intended to be playable in a single session - yet there are more than 20,000 words of text in each, in addition to the map and puzzle logic. | | | What happens in the adventure depends very much on where we go, and what we ask. |
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http://www.amazonsystems.co.uk/data/textadv.htm
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| | Phantasy Star 2 Text Adventures |
| | PS 2 Text Adventures were 8 games, each one starred by a character from PS 2. | | | The games were mostly based on text, just like PS Adventure, and the stories were about the past of every character, before they met on PS 2. | | | The same way Sega released a couple of games with kinda parallel stories for Game Gear, there was also something similar to Mega Drive (japanese Genesis). |
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http://www.efkm.com/dezoris/pse_pst.html
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| | TEXT ADVENTURE GAMES |
| | A new text game interpreter with a built in Text To Speech engine has just been released which opens up the ability to play hundreds of classic text adventure games, which can be downloaded from within the Interpreter itself, or from the link below. | | | Recently I've discovered that many of my friends have never played a text adventure game on their computer. | | | Some of them are free, and some are shareware, but please don't send any money to game authors without checking if the address is correct, as many of the games are old and the address may be invalid. |
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http://www.whitestick.co.uk/text.html
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| | Running classic interactive text adventures on your Palm device (EasyPrint) |
| | Ask any fan of video and computer games, and he or she will tell you: it's all about the game play. | | | Good game play makes good games, and a well-designed and executed computer game will be captivating--no matter what hardware it runs on. | | | No games better illustrated this principle than the interactive fiction games (sometimes shortened as "IF," but even better known as merely "text adventures") created by Infocom in the early 1980s. |
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http://www.palmpower.com/issuesprint/issue199906/brother.html
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| | Introduction to Interactive Fiction (aka Text Adventures) |
| | Interactive fiction works (once called text adventures) are games and stories that you control by typing instructions. | | | If you enjoyed Infocom games or other commercial text adventures of the past, you'll find new works that appeal to you for the same reasons. | | | Some IF works take hours and hours to play, and some provide fifteen minutes of lunch-time entertainment. |
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http://emshort.home.mindspring.com/introduction.html
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| | Text Adventures |
| | How Adventure Games Age - While graphic adventure games tend to look very dated very quickly, text adventures still seem fresh a decade after they were written. | | | XO Play iPod Text Adventures - "Choose your own adventure" style games for the apple iPod. | | | The Adventures of Robin Hood - By Howard Pyle, a Project Gutenberg e-text. |
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http://www.findly.com/text-adventures.htm
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| | Abiro - The Lab - Computer Games - Text Adventures |
| | There's no money in making text adventures anymore, but that doesn't seem to stop all hobbyists using any of the adventure game development tools to churn out new ones. | | | Believe it or not, text adventures are still around, and new ones are developed and played. | | | Society for the Promotion of Adventure Games (SPAG) |
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http://www.abiro.com/lab/advent.php
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| | Brass Lantern How to Play a Text Adventure Part 1 |
| | Maybe you're a big fan of adventure games, but have only played graphic adventures before. | | | My goal is to help you learn how to look at a text adventure and figure out what's going on. | | | What I'm going to tell you won't apply to every game that's out there, but it will help you play many of them. |
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http://www.brasslantern.org/players/howto/playta1.html
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| | Beginner Resources |
| | Finding your way through the thicket of interpreters and game files in order to play a modern text adventure can be daunting if you don't have a guide. | | | At some point we were all newcomers to the world of interactive fiction and adventure games. | | | Learn more about their history and the various types of graphic adventure games before leaping in feet-first. |
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http://www.brasslantern.org/beginners
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| | PDD's Adventure Page |
| | The danger of losing an entire heritage of adventure games is very real, as many collectors value their "pristine shrinkwraps" more highly than the actual games. | | | New text adventures are being published as freeware or shareware, and some of them can hold their own with Infocom's best. | | | Several of their adventures (Sherlock, the Tolkien games: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Shadows of Mordor, Crack of Doom) were written by Beam Software who now own the rights and allow their free distribution. |
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http://www.if-legends.org/~pdd
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| | Brass Lantern Downloading and Running Text Adventures |
| | Most modern text adventures come in two pieces: the game file, and the interpreter. | | | Let's face it: if you haven't played a modern text adventure before, chances are you'll have some trouble even figuring out how to get one to run on your computer. | | | If you're looking for a guide to playing text adventures, you will need to look elsewhere. |
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http://brasslantern.org/players/howto/tadownload.html
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| | Quandary Forums: Text Adventures |
| | I have only ever played one Text Game and cannot for the life of me remember what it was called. | | | There is a big text adventure/interactive fiction community online, and a lot of new games being made. | | | Which means when I was playing games (and I was computer literate) you were still sucking a dummy (pacifier for the Americans) and wearing nappies (diapers also for the Americans). |
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http://www.quandaryland.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/2961/an/0/page/2
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| | Tolkien adventure games |
| | Two categories of non-illustrated text adventures not in this list are the MUD games and the | | | The other two categories are traditional text adventures, with or without pictures. | | | The first category are modern point-and-click type games. |
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http://www.lysator.liu.se/tolkien-games/adventures.html
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| | Game Revolution PC Review Page - Game Revolution |
| | If you've never played a text based game, I highly recommend dropping your joystick and cracking those knuckles. | | | Among the better known titles is the Zork series (Zero, I, II, III, Beyond), Bureaucracy, Planetfall, and the ever popular Leather Goddesses of Phobos (minors, please avert your gaze). | | | If you've never played a text adventure (i.e. |
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http://www.game-revolution.com/games/pc/adventure/classtxt.htm
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| | Failed Text Adventures <<< |
| | For an added bonus you can play the Match-Up game, by trying to match the author, with his/her Failed Text Game. | | | Those of you who have seen the movie Big, with Tom Hanks, will remember the younger Tom Hanks character playing a text-based adventure game in the beginning of the movie. | | | Warner is a sad and desperate sort of man. So enjoy, and we look forward to reading your own Failed Text Games. |
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http://www.gorillamag.com/textgames.html
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| | Waxy.org: Daily Log: InfocomBot for AOL Instant Messenger |
| | If you've never played a text adventure game before, Brass Lantern has a great introduction to basic gameplay. | | | ZORK is a game of adventure, danger, and low cunning. | | | I set up an automated bot to play classic Infocom text adventure games from your favorite IM client, T-Mobile Sidekick, or any other device that connects to AIM. |
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http://www.waxy.org/archive/2004/03/21/infocomb.shtml
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| | The Daily Ping: Infocom: King of Text Adventures (9/9/2000) |
| | i've got the infocom fantasy and adventure collections, from activision, but in the games it often tells me to refer to things from the game package that I didn't get. | | | I would like to find an old text game I played as a kid. | | | On the CD were over 30 Infocom games (including a few never before released ones) along with their PDF manuals. |
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http://www.dailyping.com/archive/2000/09/09
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| | Kotaku - text adventures |
| | So far they have three interactive novels out: a haunted house adventure, murder mystery and fantasy role playing game. | | | I’m going to have to get my hands on one of these games and review it, I’m very intrigued. | | | Reading websites, RSS, ebooks, text adventures, appsl, games and more on a watch [Make] |
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http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/text-adventures/index.php
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| | Adventure - Wikipedia |
| | Beispiele für - ebenfalls von Privatleuten programmierte - grafische Entwicklungsumgebungen für Adventures sind, unter anderem, AGS (Adventure Game Studio) und Visionaire. | | | Nimm Schwert), um so seine Spielfigur durch die fiktive Welt zu steuern. | | | Adventure Game Studio - Eine Engine um benannte Spiele selber zu entwickeln |
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http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafikadventure
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| | Text Adventures on a Newton |
| | They're a little bit stale, but the gist of the game is all there. | | | Unfortunately, some of the games are in a V5 format, so you can't play them yet. | | | In addition, Activision has released something called the Masterpiece Adventure Collection, which has many of their favourite games on it. |
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http://www.scrawlsoft.com/products/yazi/info.html
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| | Text Adventures Galore |
| | Kill troll with sword." Zork was among the best known of a genre of games known as text adventures. | | | Though for the vast majority of people, technically more elaborate games have replaced these prose-intensive efforts, there is still an active community of people on the Internet developing them. | | | This quirky art/entertainment form is especially intriguing to me because it is one of the few forms of interactive entertainment that can be completely conceived and realized by a single person, which makes for some very interesting results at times. |
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http://www.mcmains.net/334
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| | Adventureland |
| | if-legends.org is a non-commercial project devoted to adventure games. | | | This site tries to list all adventure games (interactive fiction) produced over the years. | | | For a more detailed description of what's included here and not, see the FAQ. |
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http://www.if-legends.org/~adventure
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| | Omniseek: /Recreation /Games /Interactive Fiction /Text Adventures / |
| | Luckily, there are tons of other websites on the web regarding adventure games. | | | HotBot Directory/ Games/ Video Games/ Interactive Fiction/ Text Adventures | | | Lycos Directory: Games * Video Games * Interactive Fiction * Text Adventures |
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http://www.omniseek.com/srch/{35452}
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| | FreeArcade.com - Text Adventures |
| | The original adventure game that started it all. | | | Shooting Games1 Shooting Games2 Arcade Games1 Arcade Games2 Arcade Games3 Puzzle Games Board Games Card Games Text Adventures Graphics Adventures | | | For privacy info, please review our privacy policy. |
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http://ww8.freearcade.com/textadventures.html
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| | MaxTADS 1.1.6 -- an Macintosh interface for text adventures |
| | MaxTADS is a clean Macintosh interface to games written in the TADS portable game format. | | | People seem to think that some of them are pretty good. | | | I myself have written several text adventures, although they're Z-code games, not TADS. |
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http://www.eblong.com/zarf/maxtads.html
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| | ChewOnGlass.com - Text Adventures |
| | Text Adventures (or Interactive Fiction) are games which use a command line for all actions. | | | If you beat a Text Adventure, returning to it will start a new game. | | | If you are logged in while playing, your progress will be saved and you will continue from your last command the next time you log in. |
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http://www.chewonglass.com/text_adv/index.php
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| | Infocom.Elsewhere.Org |
| | A wealth of information about Adventure, the game without which it is unlikely the rest of these would exist. | | | A nicely-presented archive of information, most of which came from the if-archive in a much less organized form. |
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http://infocom.elsewhere.org
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| | Interactive Fiction Page |
| | SPAG (Society for the Promotion of Adventure Games) | | | Graham Nelson's "The Craft of the Adventure" (including the Player's Bill of Rights) | | | My take is that graphical adventures are to text adventures what movies are to novels. |
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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/wsr/Web/IF/homepage.html
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| | Profanity Adventures |
| | Theres a lot of websites dedicated to 8 bit gaming about. | | | A nostalgic look at what used to happen when you tried typing swear words into text adventures |
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http://www.monkeon.co.uk/swearadventure
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| | Omniseek: /Games /Interactive Fiction /Text Adventures /Downloads / |
| | Text Adventure Development System Docs - Games Domain - Downloads | | | Omniseek: /Games /Interactive Fiction /Text Adventures /Downloads / | | | Text adventure games are a legacy from a time when computing power was small, when terminal access was commonplace, and when monochrome graphics was "state of the art". |
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http://www.omniseek.com/srch/{24270}
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| | Directory - Games: Video Games: Adventure: Text Adventures: Seastalker |
| | "Seastalker is, overall, a good game, and will definitely appeal to children and those who enjoy adventure stories." | | | Directory - Games: Video Games: Adventure: Text Adventures: Seastalker | | | Top : Games : Video Games : Adventure : Text Adventures : Seastalker (6) |
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http://www.incywincy.com/default?p=570810
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| | Text Adventure Games |
| | THE magazine for adventure, puzzle and RPG players! | | | Made a demo or game you want to display here? | | | Adventure Catalog, Reviews, Game Authors, History and Downloads |
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http://www.richmond62.freeserve.co.uk
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| | Graeme Yeandle’s Text Adventure Page |
| | If you want to try writing your own text adventure games you can try PAW (101k) which includes the Adventure Interpreter and the source code for Ticket and Tewk. | | | Download the interpreter and the adventure to the same directory/folder and run it from DOS e.g. | | | Here are some text adventures (in order of difficulty) that were originally written for the Sinclair Spectrum. |
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http://www.btinternet.com/~yeandle/advent
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| | text adventures (interactive fiction) MetaFilter |
| | The last third or so loses focus a bit and becomes quite difficult, but it remains one of my all-time favorite text games. | | | I tend to like, on a hit or miss basis, the less "gamey" of IF these days; the puzzle-heavy ones tend to be unfun for me, since they tend to mostly be of the combinatoric object A in object B variety. | | | Text adventures by Adam Cadre, including the amazing Photopia. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/39549
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| | The Interactive Fiction Archive |
| | A Beginner's Guide to Playing Interactive Fiction: a step-by-step guide to downloading and playing the games. | | | Unsure how to get started in the world of text adventures? | | | The contents of the IF Archive -- including thousands of text adventures, text adventure development tools, articles, essays, hint files, walkthroughs, jokes, and sly references to Greek politics -- are contributed by the interactive fiction community, past and present. |
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http://www.ifarchive.org
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| | Text Adventures Software |
| | Easily posts to job boards or to a web site. | | | action game software, arcade game software, online game software, fatman adventures software, | | | Quest is a powerful but easy-to-use adventure game development system which allows you to create text adventures (also known as "interactive fiction") quickly and easily, using a visual editor which displays everything in plain English. |
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http://www.cutedownloads.com/two/text-adventures.htm
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| | The 11th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition |
| | Special thanks go to Geof Morris, Mark Musante, Lucian Smith, and Misty Granade. | | | For fans of the old Infocom games as well as for newcomers to the genre, the competition is a chance to enjoy some of the best short adventure games available anywhere. | | | Welcome to IFComp 2005, the competition for short text adventures. |
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http://ifcomp.org
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| | WinSite: Christian Text Adventures |
| | The games are The Way, The Call, Bible Time Machine and The Sojourner part one. | | | This pack includes four fun Christian Text Adventures teaching Biblical truths in a fun way. | | | Copyright © WinSite Group Inc. All rights reserved. |
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http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?14500000036982
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| | The Unofficial Legend Text Adventure Home Page |
| | Anyway, click on MAIL, above, to see how to get in touch with me. Thanks again for visiting! | | | Legend Entertainment is a game company that makes high-quality PC games. | | | They started out, however, from the ashes of Infocom, making high-quality text adventures with graphics and sound. |
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http://www.waitingforgo.com/legend
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| | yousick.com - text adventures |
| | Do you need better listings for text adventures? | | | Read about text adventures in the free online encyclopedia and dictionary. | | | Click here to get more listings for text adventures. |
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http://www.yousick.com/text-adventures.aspx
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