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Thanks for the unique perspective! What’s an IF game? Very difficult to search that; Google prioritizes matches containing the English word ‘if’.
by runnerup 4y ago
Thanks for the unique perspective!
What’s an IF game? Very difficult to search that; Google prioritizes matches containing the English word ‘if’.
- rprospero 4y agoInteractive Fiction
- 082349872349872 4y agoNote well that people who enjoy Interactive Fiction (what we used to call "text adventures") ought to be the most likely people to forgive the fact that a pseudo-natural language interface is, in fact, much pickier with regard to accepted input than actual natural language. (what we used to call tolerance for "guess the verb")
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- qznc 4y agoHere is a reasonable starting point: https://ifcomp.org/about/if https://ifcomp.org/about/if
- agiacalone 4y agoAs many have said, it stands for Interactive Fiction. Since there seems to be some interest in it, the assignment I give my students is on Github here: https://github.com/agiacalone/cecs-342-lab-inform7 https://github.com/agiacalone/cecs-342-lab-inform7 I have more info on IF/text adventures there as well.
- kcartlidge 4y ago> What’s an IF game? Very difficult to search that; Google prioritizes matches containing the English word ‘if’. Replace "IF" with "text adventure" and you'll get better results. Their heyday was pre-Windows and the classic names to look for are Infocom (US), Scott Adams (US), and Level 9 (UK). Edit: To add, just download Inform and try it, alongside https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/book/WI_1_1.html https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/book/WI_1_1.html which takes you step by step through stuff.