Tag: Interactive Fiction

While writing my previous post about the ZX Spectrum Next, I learned that one of the games I mentioned in the article had been released only four hours ago! Rite of the Druid is a text adventure game or using a more modern term, an interactive fiction where you are part of a small tribe, preparing to take part in…

The latest episode of everybody’s favorite Text Adventure Podcast, Eaten by a Grue, is out. Join in as the Grue Crew discusses Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels, as well as retro terminals, nerdy music videos, and Carrington tries to speak slower. And, did they just say they’re going to play a point-and-click game next?!? What is this world…

The year is 1862. You received a letter from your old childhood friend Raynard. You have kept in touch on and off since you left your village for the city to find work and a more interesting lifestyle. Raynard elected to stay and eventually moved to a neighbouring village called Raven Wood to take over the running of his fathers’…

“Important people who shaped the TI 99/4A World” blog on Atariage is talking about Scott Adams, the genius behind many Text adventure games  was brought up in Miami Florida. In 1975 he wrote a computer game on a computer that his brother Richard built a year before, making him the first person on earth to write a computer game on a home…