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1. Bad Machine

   Bad Machine is codework that works. It presents a surface of text that blends English with structures and tropes from programming languages, database queries and reports, error messages, and other forms of machine communication. But it is also a functioning interactive fiction, capable of accepting commands and being figured out by the assiduous reader. The machinery of program and language is at work here, as those who are up to the challenge of Bad Machine can discover. (Source: Electronic Literature Collection, Vol. 1).

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 18.04.2011 - 12:59

2. Winchester's Nightmare

   Author's description:

   Winchester's Nightmare is a work in Inform, premiered at Digital Arts and Culture '99 on October 29 in Atlanta. In its "hardback" form, it is a novel-length interactive fiction which includes a computer running software: a novel machine. The work consists of a primitive portable computer running this cybertext in the literary fiction genre, with a text-adventure interface. Ten hardbacks were manufactured for sale;some are still available. The softback, available free, contains the entire text of the hardback edition.

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 08.09.2011 - 21:25

3. Common Ground: One Night in a Three-story House

   Common Ground: One Night in a Three-story House is the story of a poor suburban family told interactively through text.

   (Source: 2002 ELO State of the Arts gallery)

   A three-chapter game (with an epilogue) in which you're a different character in each chapter. The twist is that each chapter covers roughly the same space of time, and you interact with the other two characters, to varying degrees, when you're in each pair of shoes. The gameplay is a bit restrictive--the game doesn't allow for a lot of variation--but the characters themselves are well developed and the interactions feel reasonably realistic. The game even does a passable job of recording the actions you take when you're one character and playing them back when you're a different character, observing the antics of the first. Very short--20-30 minutes to play through at most--but worth playing; it largely eschews puzzles in favor of character interaction in a way that little IF attempts.

   (Source: Review by Duncan Stevens, BAF's guide to the IF Archive)

    

   Scott Rettberg - 17.01.2013 - 13:26

4. Aisle

   A work of interactive fiction.

   From IFwiki:

   • The original "one move" game. After the results of the player's command are displayed, the game pauses for a keypress, then returns the game back to the beginning so the player can make another choice.
   • Multiple endings. Although some endings are better than others, there is no best winning ending; the player is not playing to win or lose. Also, the endings, taken together, imply inconsistent past histories for the PC.
   • Puzzleless. The player is expected to explore the possibilities offered by the set-up. There is some emphasis on calling each variant a story, or part of a story.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 29.06.2013 - 09:31

5. Bliss: An Interactive Harrowing

   Bliss: An Interactive Harrowing

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 29.06.2013 - 18:59

6. Exhibition

   Exhibition

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.07.2013 - 22:36

7. Varicella

   Varicella is a 1999 work of interactive fiction by Adam Cadre, distributed in z-code format as freeware. It is set in an alternate history which features roughly modern technology mixed with Renaissance-style principalities and court politics. The characters of Varicella use contemporary language from their home in a Renaissance castle, continuing the contrast between old and new. The player character is Primo Varicella, palace minister in Piedmont, who has to get rid of several rivals for the regency following the death of the king. The international situation in the game is described in passing: Piedmont is part of a loose confederation of kingdoms that make up a Carolingian League and is engaged in a war against the Republic of Venice. It won four XYZZY Awards in 1999 including the XYZZY Award for Best Game, and was nominated for another four.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.07.2013 - 23:02

8. For a Change

   For a Change

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.07.2013 - 23:40