IF's Retrofuturist Roots
Amping up retro technological friction encourages the player to decipher an IF game's interface as if it is an alien device with its own "emotional language".
“The world is sick and ugly”
The limitations of Interactive Fiction provide a unique avenue for horror.
Text based games cannot replicate the kind of tension that many survival horror games thrive in. The possibilities for emergent gameplay from
Game Poems, Doors to IF of the Moment
A digital poem that features both text and interactivity is a type of “Interactive Fiction” in the traditional sense.
A Conversation with Nathalie Lawhead
Nathalie Lawhead joined us on Zoom to talk about their work, interactive fiction, internet subcultures, social media and lots more.
My Waltz into the IFComp
This essay was made possible through the support of the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation.
Just a month before I entered it, I had no idea what the IFComp was.
The year was 2017.