Interactive Fiction Pictures

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Screenshots from interactive fiction and text adventures. Suggestions welcome, including your own games, through DMs.

The interactive fiction conference Narrascope is having some financial issues this year so if you were looking at attending (even the virtual option is very good!) or sponsoring it, now would be a great time!

https://narrascope.org/pages/registration.html

Registration

NarraScope 2024 June 21 - 23 — Rochester, NY Register via EventBrite More info on the event venue, travel, and hotels. Our COVID policy. In-person registration closes on June 7th. Online registration closes June 17th. There will be no at-the-door registration! In-person attendance includes all Saturday and Sunday talks, plus the price …

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Here's a new interactive fiction game jam I'm helping to host: https://itch.io/jam/single-choice-jam

The Single Choice Jam is a short unranked jam where you have only one restriction: you can give players only one choice or action in the whole game.

#InteractiveFiction #SingleChoiceJam

Single Choice Jam

A game jam from 2023-07-15 to 2023-08-19 hosted by manonamora, sophiades, Lapin Lunaire Games & Autumn Chen. The Jam where you only give one choice to the player! The Single Choice Jam is a short unranked jam where you have only one restriction : you can give...

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if you love Infocom and have $155,000 hanging around, this eBay auction is for you https://www.ebay.com/itm/115558782739
Infocom Vintage Video Game Collection.  ALL NOS!  The Holy Grail of Collections. | eBay

By reading this, the assumption is that you know what you are looking at. They hold a significant place in computer and gaming history. Anyone familiar with the genre has probably heard of Zork, which is one of many titles produced by Infocom.

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Inspired by the work @yochaigal did with ttrpgs, I have made a form where adventure game/interactive fiction folks can add their Mastodon account to a living csv that new Mastodon users can use to easily find folks on here and import into their account.

The form and csv are available here:
https://tinyurl.com/mastoadventure

#adventuregames #interactivefiction

Hey any new people coming from @misty 's post! (also if you don't follow her you should b/c she's my best friend and is incredibly cool)

I guess I should do an intro if people are coming to my profile for the first time:
I'm Aura! I animate for games and ramble online too much.

Some things I've done:

* Aura's Guide to the Atelier Series, an intro to a crafting series I love https://docs.google.com/document/d/18TMbTwoeAsOXadzSHsqzFp20-UbXIDq28-xbqoLg0Zc/edit?usp=sharing

* Infodoc on what to expect for trans women getting bottom surgery: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iVz1N4qhnalp1slV_cOijgn5-M3EO3PViTaeL-akMhM/edit?usp=sharing

Aura's Guide to the Modern Atelier

Aura’s Guide to the Modern Atelier AKA “What Atelier Game Should I Play?” AKA “Please give me way more information about Atelier than I ever asked for” AKA “After reading this document you will be tired of the word ‘Atelier’” A young girl hoists her pack, ready for another trip out past the e...

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@esdin i'm a solo queer #IndieDev that works on operatic traumatic/erotic artgames that can also be read as orchestral / piano stageplays. my interest is in #interactivefiction and #visualnovel games with an emphasis on grandly emotive OSTs since i play harp, piano, and guitar as well as compose orchestral suites.

my current project is a videotome: adv game here: https://swanchime.itch.io/tenshi-no-shi called TENSHI NO SHI which is a branching interactive adventure through language, lyric, and trans/gender ++ internalized homophobia ++ deeply intense devotion and love and fierce hope.

this is my #introduction !

#gamedev

TENSHI NO SHI by swanchime

THE DEATH OF A CHILD OF HEAVEN

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ParserComp is here, with 15 pipin' hot fresh parser IF games!

https://itch.io/jam/parsercomp-2023/entries

and the Neo-Twiny Jam has concluded, with *123* short games of no more than 500 words of text (excluding code).

https://itch.io/jam/neo-twiny-jam/entries

Submissions to ParserComp 2023

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Open Sorcery
Abigail Corfman
2016

A text-based game that follows the development of an elemental firewall. A creature of magical fire bound by C++ code.
https://opensorcerygames.itch.io/open-sorcery

Also available in the Queer Games Bundle
https://itch.io/b/1812/queer-games-bundle-2023

Open Sorcery by OpenSorceryGames

A game about magic, technology and becoming a person.

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🏳️‍🌈 Queer Games Bundle 2023 is live now! 🏳️‍🌈

Over 450 games, tabletop games, books, zines, albums, and art, from nearly 300 queer creators -- all for just $60, the price of one AAA game.

http://bit.ly/queergames2023

#queergamesbundle

Queer Games Bundle 2023 by Queer Games Bundle and 293 others

Queer Games Bundle 2023: 464 items for $60.00

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I've written a post about learning Inform 7, among other things. I share my messy code in hopes of encouraging non-programmers to try Inform 7 if it interests them.

https://golmac.org/about-the-time-i-wrote-an-inform-7-game/

#Inform7 #RepeatTheEnding #SpringThing

About the Time I Wrote an Inform 7 Game - Gold Machine

In this essay, I discuss my experiences making an Inform 7 game and entering it in Spring Thing 2023. To me, I7 is a very accessible tool.

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