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A sample pregenerated adventure is included at the end of this document, but a wide array of free and paid adventures are available from third-party creators and publishers.įor small groups, a home setting is perfectly appropriate. Advanced players can play the game improvisationally, with certain players essentially making up the characters and moves as they go guidelines for this mode of play are available in additional supplements.
You’ll typically play this game with a pregenerated adventure, which establishes the nature of the characters and the moves they’ll make during a play session. What you can control is how those events are explored: what mood do they establish? What events are especially significant, and how do the characters actually feel as they go through the sequence? One difference in this game is that you aren’t in control of all the events in the story: they proceed in the sequence established by the adventure you’re playing. Together, as in most roleplaying games, you’ll enact a story. Theatre is a live-action roleplaying game for any number of players, limited only by your available space and resources. For beginners, we recommend Countdown: A Game for Two Players, by the same developers. This game is intended for players experienced with roleplaying. Continue reading IF Retrospective: The 2006 XYZZY Awards → That means that, in my quest to catch up with the past decade and a half of IF, I’ve chosen to start with 2006. I also remember playing “Mystery House Possessed” by one of my personal favorite authors, Emily Short, which won Best Use of Medium in that year. When I look at the XYZZY Awards, the last year that I remember playing most of the winners was 2005, although that was helped by how that year’s awards were swept by Jason Devlin’s “Vespers”, which won four of the ten categories. Yes, this is a community so old that it’s defined by a technology that was obsolete by 2005 or so. It tends to have nominators, nominees, and voters that are super-dedicated to text-heavy works that are in conversation with the canon of parser and hypertext works that were historically discussed on the Usenet group -fiction.
The actual premiere in-group awards competition for IF is the XYZZY Awards, a relatively obscure ritual mostly open to dedicated practitioners of the medium. That means it’s not quite comprehensive in the way I’m looking for. The IFComp, however, is focused on works which can be played in two hours, there’s a tradition of well-known authors using pseudonyms, and it only collects games submitted newly to the Comp. The most well-known IF awards competition is, appropriately, the Annual Interactive Fiction Competition, or IFComp, an event initiated in 1995 with the express intention to encourage new works of IF. I’ve fallen out of the habit of keeping up with the genre, and I’d like to get caught up. These days I see this sort of game often described as “text games”, which seems a fine enough label. At one point, it mostly included parser games (where you type things like TAKE DEVICE and EXAMINE VISTA) but is now also commonly used for hypertext games (Twine games and choose-your-own-adventures) and similar works.
I used to diligently keep up with “interactive fiction”, a game category that used to mean the same thing as “text adventure” but has broadened over time. Content Warning: Colonialism, Misogyny, Racism, Childhood sexual assault
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