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February 2006

January 2006

jay is games: php Zork!

Zork is a text adventure, which is a form of interactive fiction, like a cross between a novel and an RPG with some escape-the-room type puzzles thrown in.

November 2005

WSJ.com - Keeping a Genre Alive

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In a Bid to Rekindle the Text-Only PC GamesOf the 1980s, Fans Write New Adventures

October 2005

Interactive Fiction nominees available for download from Guardian Unlimited: Gamesblog

There are some tremendous "interactive fictions" (as they're now called) out there in Internet Land, from the re-issue of the classic Hitchhiker's Guilde to the Galaxy to the superb adaptation of Hamlet (which was such a hit that it seems to have overstepped its bandwidth allowance).