Recent content by Dennis G. Jerz

Infocom was using "interactive fiction" by at least 1985, though I do often encounter the meme that somehow "text adventure" has been recently, and perhaps snobbishly, replaced. Since text-parser games can be mysteries or conversations or landscapes, rather than adventures, IF is a bit more...

I've assigned this Escapist article to help introduce my students to the genre. It offers a good overview. Recent interactive fiction publications of scholarly interest include: * Nick Montfort's book, Twisty Little Passages, and his dissertation, "Generating Narrative Variation in...