English 1028F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Interactive Fiction, Graham Nelson, Adventure International
28 Dec 2018
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What we learn today will be useful for this assignment. Not changing the matter, changing the manner. Talk about things you tried to do but did not work, then talks about the sexy stuff, something you think was successful and what you tried to do. Using the term if instead of text adventure, if emphasized what is most signification about the digital text. Scott adams opened company called adventure international with the goal of producing text adventure games for the home computer in 1978. Commercial period: the age of infocom exploratory and puzzle focused. New school (the age of independent if) Commercial revival diaspora last 7 years. Influence author working in the world of independent interactive fiction. He showed what people can do with it. He is hard, his games is hard. Made it significant because can get wider generic variety of text-adventures. No purpose really just exploring various options. Can input codes in sentences not in codes.
