Interactive Fiction

File Format
Name	Interactive Fiction
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Interactive Fiction

Also known as "adventure games" or "text adventures" after the Original (Colossal Cave) Adventure.

• A-code
• AAS (Advanced Authoring System)
• ACE
• ADMS
• ADRIFT (Adventure Developer & Runner - Interactive Fiction Toolkit)
• AdvBuilder
• Adven-80
• Advent (not to be confused with ADVENT the game)
• Adentura
• Adventure Contruction Set
• Adventure Definition Language (ADL)
• Adventure Editor
• Adventure International (Scott Adams)
• Adventure Master
• Adventure Simulator
• Adventurescape
• AdvSys (Adventure System)
• AGI (Adventure Game Interpreter)
• AGIFG (Adventure Game and Interactive Fiction Generator)
• AGT (Adventure Game Toolkit)
  • GAGS (Generic Adventure Game System)
• Aiee! (An Interactive Environment Engine!)
• ALAN (Adventure Language)
  • ALAN 3
• Amstrad Pentacle Adventure Creator
• Archetype
• Aventuro
• BAGS (Beany Adventure Game System)
• Blorb
• Brainex Door Manager
• C-Adventure Toolkit
• CAECHO (Creador de Aventuras de Errata CHOft)
• CAT (Creative Adventure Toolkit)
• CAW (Creative Adventure Writer)
• CUTRA (Creador Ultra Raro de Aventuras)
• DAP
• Drool (David's Reworked Object-Oriented Language)
• Eamon
• Figment
• GAC (Graphic Adventure Creator)
• Gamescape
• Genesis
• GINAS (Generic Interactive Narrative Authoring System)
• Glulx
• GTAC (Graphic Text Adventure Creator)
• Hugo
• IAGE (Internet Adventure Game Engine)
• Inform
• JACL (JACL Adventure Creation Language)
• KiriKiri Adventure Game System (KAG)
• LADS (Levy's Adventure Development System)
• Level9
• Magnetic Scrolls
• MDL
• MechiQue
• Mipric
• Nemlin
• NM Parser
• OASYS (Object-oriented Adventure System)
• Professional Adventure Writer (PAW)
• Prometeo
• Python Adventure Writing System) (PAWS)
• Quest
• QuestMaker
• Quill (aka AdventureWriter)
• REXX Adenture
• R.A.G.S.
• SKC
• SUDS (Single User Dungeon System)
• Superglus
• TAB
• T.A.G. (Text Adventure Generator)
• TADS (Text Adventure Development System)
  • TADS 3
• Textopia
• Twine
• TxA
• Visual SINTAC
• World Builder
• Z-code

Resources

• Cloak of Darkness: sample implementation of a single game in a variety of IF systems
• The Interactive Fiction Archive
• Interactive Fiction Wiki
• MIME types list for the IF Archive
• Let's Tell a Story Together (A History of Interactive Fiction)
• Adventures in Text Adventures
• "Typical" Adventure Map
• Some Interactive Fiction games to play online or download