The Archive’s mission is to preserve the history and practice of interactive fiction and make it freely available to the public. Since 1992, the Archive has collected thousands of text adventures, text adventure development tools, articles, essays, hint files, walkthroughs, jokes, and sly references to Greek politics.

2017年8月8日 · programming Tools for creating IF, and interpreters for playing it rec.arts.int-fiction Posts from the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.int-fiction rec.games.int-fiction Posts from the Usenet newsgroup rec.games.int-fiction scott-adams Material relating to Scott and Alexis Adams' company Adventure International, active 1978-1985 shells

The adventure game genre is now called interactive fiction (IF). In some ways, IF closely resembles the traditional literary genres of mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, and adventure tales. These types of popular literature are based on rules, games, and the creation of fantasy worlds.

Jacqueline Ashwell organized the 2024 Annual Interactive Fiction Competition. Our game curators this year were Brian Rushton, B.J. Best, Mike Russo, and Brett Witty.

Jacob Nevins (filing and organization) Mike Russo (filing and organization) fos1 (filing and organization) Max Fog (filing and organization) Paul Mazaitis (tech support) Stephen Granade (advisor) Jason McIntosh (server maintenance) The contents of the Archive are contributed by the interactive fiction community, past and present. Thank you all!

The Archive’s mission is to preserve the history and practice of interactive fiction and make it freely available to the public. Since 1992, the Archive has collected thousands of text adventures, text adventure development tools, articles, essays, hint files, walkthroughs, jokes, and sly references to Greek politics.

Nine Points: A Demonstration of an Interactive Fiction Game, by Robert Janelle and Brad O'Donnell. Release 12 / Serial number 961127. (solution is in solutions/ninepts.sol)

This should not be surprising; most of us play interactive FICTION games for the same reason we read genres of fiction like mystery, Gothic, adventure, and SF. These genres of fiction are all about problem-solving—Who killed Roger Ackroyd?

We host this material as part of the common heritage of interactive fiction. If you donate work which you did not create, you warrant that, to the best of your knowledge, it may be legitimately stored and distributed by the Archive.

Have you played interactive fiction before?>