One second you’re on the beach reading your Kindle. The next you’re standing in an open field west of a white house. That’s because you’re playing the text adventure classic Zork (or one of its ...

Do you have thoughts of grues whenever you're stumbling around in the dark? Do you own a Kindle? Then you'll want to try out PortableQuest, a text-based game engine made specifically for Kindles and ...

The classic Zork text adventure games have been made open source by Microsoft. The original trilogy, consisting of Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III, is now fully available for play, exploration, and ...

In the days before graphics, computer games had to entice players with nothing more than a well-turned phrase. Whether you prefer to call them "text adventures" or "interactive fiction," games played ...

Before video games could get graphic, text-based adventures imagined the future of literature. Since their earliest beginnings, video games have pushed the visual capabilities of computers, but early ...

For longtime adventure fans, the lexicon associated with the text adventure Zork and the company founded to publish it, Infocom, have become legend. Many gamers still recoil at the thought of the ...

Microsoft's Open Source Program Office (OSPO), in collaboration with Xbox and Activision, has open-sourced the historical text adventure games Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III under the MIT license. This ...

Infocom and the 'Planetfall' series in the 1980s, and the 'Galactic Hitchhike Guide' based on SF novels have been released on GitHub. historicalsource (Historical ...

Backstory is hard. Either you lace your game with it like hemlock, shove it all in a codex, or resort to the bad editor's best friend - the tie-in novel. Perihelion Interactive didn't particularly ...

Gather ’round, kids, and listen to my tale of the computer games of years gone by. Those without any kind of newfangled “graphics” or flashy “UI.” If you had a Commodore 64 or Apple when you were ...

As an art form, video games are often valued somewhere between college admissions essays and Stalin. Dismissed as either insipid or evil, they have long languished out of the critical spotlight. But ...

Everything you hated about text adventure games is now being sold as a productivity tool Opinion When Microsoft recently ...