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hah :) so software is like interactive literature.

• fpgeek 14y ago
  Exactly. I remember the days when Infocom called their text adventures interactive fiction.
  • sp332 14y ago
    People still write (and play!) interactive fiction. http://inform7.com/ http://inform7.com/ and http://ifdb.tads.org/search?browse http://ifdb.tads.org/search?browse
• derleth 14y ago
  It can be, with some games (Zork, GTA4, Bioshock) a lot more than others (Pong, Tetris, Tic-tac-toe, Chess). At the extreme end of games-as-literature is the Interactive Fiction world, which has been dealing with how the 'literature' and the 'game' aspects interact for decades now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_fiction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_fiction Read this essay for an introduction to the concepts: http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/info/Craft.Of.Adventure.txt http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/info/Craft.Of.Adventure....
  • xk_id 14y ago
    I actually mean "interactive literature" in a broader sense :P which includes all software, not only games. you have textbooks too, not just novels, right? :)