Interactive fiction (IF) is software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Works...

The Interactive Fiction Competition (also known as IFComp) is one of several annual competitions for works of interactive fiction. It has been held since...

The Interactive Fiction Database (IFDB) is a database of metadata and reviews of interactive fiction. In November 2023, the database contained 12,969 game...

late-19th and early-20th centuries, including popular-fiction magazines and early film. Interactive fiction was developed in the late-20th century through video...

seen in interactive fiction. The term can also be used to describe traditionally-published books in which a nonlinear narrative and interactive narrative...

The Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation (IFTF) is a nonprofit charitable organization founded in June 2016 working to maintain, improve, and preserve...

based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that produced numerous works of interactive fiction. They also produced a business application, a relational database...

Shade is a psychological horror interactive fiction game written and published by Andrew Plotkin in 2000. Shade opens with the nameless protagonist awakening...

Interactive storytelling (also known as interactive drama) is a form of digital entertainment in which the storyline is not predetermined. The author...

David Gerrold.[example needed] The phrase is the namesake of an interactive fiction game called The Gostak, written by Carl Muckenhoupt. Most of the...

Web fiction is written works of literature available primarily or solely on the Internet. A common type of web fiction is the web serial. The term comes...

digital medium, and the first early text-based games were created. Interactive fiction became a popular genre in the late 1970s and 1980s, with a thriving...

the player to interact with objects at a basic level, for example by typing "get key". Later text adventures, and modern interactive fiction, use natural...

The Interactive Fiction Collections is a video game series developed by Infocom and published by Activision for the PC and classic Mac OS. The Interactive...

Krane) is an American science fiction and fantasy author living in Solon, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, where much of his fiction is set. He was born Steven...

announced he had joined the interactive media firm Interlude, later rebranded as Eko, to help them develop an interactive media reboot of the 1983 film...

Galatea, by Emily Short, is based on the myth of Galatea. In the interactive science fiction novel Choice of Robots, by Kevin Gold, it is possible to create...

15, 1970), also known as Zarf, is a central figure in the modern interactive fiction (IF) community. Having both written a number of award-winning games...

An interactive film is a video game or other interactive media that has characteristics of a cinematic film. In the video game industry, the term refers...

Amazon is an interactive fiction graphic adventure game. The game was published by Telarium in 1984 and written by Michael Crichton. Best-selling novelist...

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...

of artificial intelligence and interactive entertainment, and began initial work in 1998 on a long-term "interactive drama piece" and "commercial product...

Galatea is an interactive fiction video game by Emily Short featuring a modern rendition of the Greek myth of Galatea, the sculpture of a woman that gained...

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...

Musical, 1990 Shogun (video game), 1986 James Clavell's Shōgun, a 1989 interactive fiction computer game Shogun (toolbox), an open source software library for...

interactive fiction) are text-based games wherein worlds are described in the narrative and the player submits typically simple commands to interact with...

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...

attention of Robert L. Lippert, who hired Clavell to write the science-fiction horror movie The Fly (1958). This became a hit and launched Clavell as...

player's attempted actions. It is the first well-known example of interactive fiction, as well as the first well-known adventure game, for which it was...

in which the reader chooses what happens, has come to be called "interactive fiction". Packard wrote many other children's books as well, and is also...