From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/from-infocom-to-80-days-an-oral-history-of-text-games-and-interactive-fiction/ #interactiveFiction #textAdventure #Games #Infocom #Inform #Twine #TextGames #GameDev #IndieGames #ComputingHistory #RetroGaming #VintageComputing #CYOA
I'm interested in finding retro (or not) games that are interactive fiction. Not Zork. Not Portal (one of my faves tho). Not Myst exactly. The game should be basically Choose Your Own Adventure with images and sound of some kind. Where do I begin the search for this? Should I be looking on iOS?
I looked here but most of these are Zorky.
A few months ago, without fanfare or announcement, I started working on a new project: a brand new, handcrafted, open source Z-machine interpreter for the Apple II. This was partly inspired by Microsoft open sourcing Zork last year, and partly by the relentless flood of slop in the #retrocomputing community, and partly because I wasn't sure I could do it.
After learning more about Z-machine, @a2_qkumba and I settled on an insane design goal: Trinity in 64K.
