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Interactive Fiction Comp 2002 Open for Signup

Posted by michael on from the take-rusty-knife dept.

MarkedMan writes "The 2002 Interactive Fiction Competition is now open for author signup and prize donation. http://ifcomp.org/ For those who are not in the know, interactive fiction is sometimes known as text adventures. In general these are games like Adventure, Zork or Photopia where there are no graphics, just text descriptions. (On the semi-rare occasions when graphics or audio accompanies the piece, it is almost always just for atmosphere.) Yes, there used to be commercially viable computer games that were like... books. As opposed to current games, which are like... television. And although these text pieces are no longer commercially viable, they are certainly still being produced..."

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  1. books and television by TRACK-YOUR-POSITION · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Yes, there used to be commercially viable computer games that were like... books. As opposed to current games, which are like... television.

    But truly the best and most successful games, from tetris to the sims, look like neither books nor television, but like games

    I'd probably be more interested in interactive fiction if I found more reason why a work of interactive fiction would have been better as plain old noninteractive fiction. I'm sure such reasons exist, anyone care to offer their favorite reason?