Re: Looking for more text adventure stuff. <G>

[wild_dj@mit.edu (D. Jacob Wildstrom)]

In article <42QG8.902$4J1.426@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net>,
 <mftodd@earthlink.net> wrote:
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>Hi all. Are there more text adventure games out there beside Eamon? :) I'm
>curios in any non-graphical text based games. Please let me know. If you
>have any for sale or would like to give me let me know. :) If you do, please
>send them on diskette. :)

I strongly suggest you check out the community on
rec.games.int-fiction (and the sister community, focused more on
design than playing, at rec.arts.int-fiction). Text 'interactive
fiction' (a phrase somewhat more highbrow than 'adventure games') has
been thriving as a hobbyist pursuit for some time now, and amateurs
have produced work which is arguably comparable in quality to
Infocom's best.

Another stopping point on your quest for good interactive fiction will
surely be the IF-archive at ifarchive.org. Also, a good place to get a
feel for the State of the Art would be "Tril's Best of IF", at
http://www.igs.net/~tril/if/best/

HTH.

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