The Short Game attempts to discuss an entire genre-defying medium of game design: text-based interactive fiction. That’s right, we’re talking about old-school text adventures, but also newer developments like Twine games and more interactive text driven games.
We discuss the history of interactive fiction, the interactive fiction scene today, and recommend a number of games that might be good for beginners or anyone interested in a good interactive read.

Please forgive our decrease in audio quality this week; we were traveling and recording under less-than-ideal conditions.
(Lots of) Links for this episode:

Colossal Cave Adventure
Zork
Interview with the creators of Zork, in the form of a text adventure
Infocom
Feelies
Planetfall Feelies
Bureaucracy Feelies
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Infocom Adventure
Twine – an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories
Inform – a design system for creating parser IF
IFComp – An annual celebration of new, text-driven digital games and stories from independent creators.
Lost Treasures of Infocom for iOS
IFDB – Interactive Fiction Database
Emily Short on the IFDB
Galatea by Emily Short
Frotz for iOS – A great application for playing parser-based IF on iOS
Child’s Play
Savoir-Faire
The Dreamhold – A free IF adventure designed for people who’ve never played IF before, by master IF designer Andrew Plotkin. Our highest recommendation for newcomers!
Spider and Web
Lost Pig
Choice of the Dragon
Counterfeit Monkey
Creatures Such As We – IFComp winner, “A dating sim about how humanity connects through art, even out in the vastness of space.”
King of Dragon Pass
Fallen London aka Echo Bazaar
Icebound
Xyzzy Awards
Spring Thing
People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction – How to Play Card
Brass Lantern – Beginners Page
Inform (parser-based) Interactive Fiction Interpreters
Hadean Lands by Andrew Plotkin
80 Days
Blood & Laurels

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Your hosts this week were:

Raygan Kelly – @raygank
Shane Kelly – @8bitShane
Laura Nash – @laurajnash

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