3. Agenda
• What is IF?
• Brief History
• Why IF Now?
• New Kids
• Quest5
• Inform7
• IFBB
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4. What is IF?
“Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, is software
simulating environments in which players use text commands to
control characters and influence the environment.”
- fromWikipedia
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5. What is IF?
“Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, is software
simulating environments in which players use text commands to
control characters and influence the environment.”
- fromWikipedia
“Meanwhile, more expansive definitions of ‘interactive fiction’ may
include all adventure games, including wholly graphical
adventures such as Myst.”
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7. Brief History
• First: Colossal Cave Adventure (1976)
• Most Famous: Zork - Infocom (1979)
• Format using MDL(=LISP)
• “put the blue book on the writing desk”
• Graphic Adventures
• Sierra, Lucas Arts
• Visual Novel (Japan)
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15. Why?
• The Power of Text
• Dickens, Lovecraft and Tolkien...
• Single-Developer Games
• 1 vs 100, for 10 hour experience
• Prototyping
• Fast Mock up & Iteration of Game Plot
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16. “Graphics cards come and go, but the text
endures. And adventure is forever.”
- Aron Reed
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18. Quest5
• Open Source IF Tool
• http://quest5.net/wiki/Main_Page
• Native App(Windows Only)
• Web App
• http://textadventures.co.uk
• No support for CJK
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20. Inform7
• Open Source IF Tool
• “Code that reads like English”
• http://inform7.com
• Multi-platform Native App
• Windows, Mac, Linux
• No support for CJK
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23. IFBB
• Under Development
• True Multi-language & Multi-device Support
• Web based Playing & Authoring(Planned)
• Touch Interface
• XML Format
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