HypeDyn (pronounced "hyped in") is a procedural hypertext fiction authoring tool for people who want to create text-based interactive stories that adapt to reader choice

"Cloak of Darkness", a canonical "Hello World" of interactive fiction

Creating an Emotional Story Space With Inform 7

Glimmr is an attempt to bring Inform’s support for graphics up to the level of Glulx’s potential.

If you are into IF/MUD archeology this is a seminal text: "Zork and the Future of Computerized Fantasy Simulations"

Undum is a game framework for building a sophisticated form of hypertext interactive fiction.

The JavaScript library "termlib.js" provides a `Terminal' object, which facillitates a simple and object oriented approach to generate and control a terminal-like interface for web services.

The hardest thing about writing a multiple-choice game in ChoiceScript is creating interesting choices for your players. Here are five rules you can follow to make decisions you write more fun and engaging.

Adventure Book for Inform 7 is a recreation of the behavior of Jon Ingold's Adventure Book programming system.

Flaxo is a Flash-based interpreter for Interactive Fiction (IF) games compiled for Infocom's Z-Machine, versions 1-8 (except version 6).

On this page I present a tentative timeline presenting some important dates in the history of adventure games. This is still very much a work in progress, so any feedback is appreciated.

What decades of evolution have done for the genre is refine the user interface. The genre's improvements are largely independent of the technology used and have gradually evolved in response to user feedback and designers' efforts to make the puzzles clear yet challenging. The evolution of that interface, alongside an explanation of what an adventure game fundamentally is, will be the focus of this article.

Curveship is an interactive fiction system that provides a typical world model (of characters, objects, locations, and things that happen) and also allows the narration and description of that world to change

Create your own interactive stories with Twine, the same tool used to produce the stories on this Web site.

Then throw in the fact that, yes, other characters generally don't speak unless spoken to, and when they do speak, stay on point. They don't make small talk, don't look at you expectantly, and in the very rare cases that their facial expressions are important, those expressions are translated into words. Throw in the fact that there are usually clear goals, the fact that everything operates according to a set of rules that can be deduced, and that those rules can be synthesized into a strategy for achieving those goals. So it's not just

Spatterlight is a native Cocoa application plays most kinds of interactive fiction game files

Five articles on the design of adventure games

The Z-Machine is possibly the most portable virtual machine ever created, meaning that programs generated using Inform can be easily run on machines ranging from the Commodore 64 to the latest Mac OS X system, from the lowliest handheld to the highest-end

this is a collection of responses to PLUGH in a multitude of IF games.

In this site you will find the latest interactive fiction games reviews

Three years in the making, Inform 7 is a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed, guided both by contemporary work in semantics and by the practical experience of some of the world's best-known writers of IF.