I was looking for a a coop game to play with my wife. She suggested Man of Medan. We're glad we didn't buy it on PC, but I'm kind of glad I already had a PS4 copy lying around. Developed by the same studio

For the past several months I’ve been looking into quite a few different ways to convert my interactive fiction into digital E-books for things like the Kindle. Some of the biggest issues I kept running

Ice Planet is my most ambitious interactive fiction to date clocking in at over 70k words. This is also now my third interactive fiction in as many years. I started working on Ice Planet shortly after

The year is 2254 and the Earth’s population is nearing 20 billion people.

Updated my old #gamedev project "Procrastination Simulator" with various small changes. Fixed some typos, and changed some sentences. I tried to make it funnier as well updating to the latest

Sci Fi Interactive Fiction fiction GameBook

Do you enjoy Choose Your Own Adventures / Interactive Fiction? 

For those not familiar with Infocom, they were famous for creating a line of text-based adventure games in the 1980s, the first and most famous of which is Zork. Though graphics were added to later games

The easiest part of writing, is having the idea. What idea? THE idea! That great twist, that moving image, that wonderful character. Anyone with a bit a fantasy, anyone a bit insane, can come up with some

So after thinking good things about Depression Quest, despite various antics and the ensuing explosion of controversy, I was inspired to take a look into TWINE (the ‘game engine’ that powers Depression

Recently on social media I saw some mention of Twine, an engine for creating “interactive fiction” games. I've seen it talked about before, but mostly gave it a pass. I've played some interactive fiction

The Pawn was an adventure game originally released for the Sinclair QL in 1985 by a company called Magnetic Scrolls and then ported to a number of other systems. While the game had graphics on many of

If you are interested in trying out interactive writing (either parser or choice based) but you don't know where to begin, then this would be a good starting point. Personally, I would add ChoiceScript

In a post by @elseleth yesterday I was reminded of the classic Infocom text adventure games. That started me nostalgically reminiscing, and reminded me that I had never actually completed Planetfall, one

The venerable Saugus.net Halloween Ghost Story Writing Contest is open for submissions in its twentieth year. It's completely free to enter, and Saugus.net is a non-profit organization that places no

If you happen to be a fan of text adventures and are looking for something on par with the Infocom games, then Mindwheel by Synapse Software would be an excellent choice. Much like Zork and the other Infocom