Text-based adventure games, known as “interactive fiction” in gamer’s parlance, are making a slow but steady comeback thanks to a Mac-friendly programming tool called Inform 7. “It is pitch black. You ...

Remember playing text-based computer games? Depending on your generation (and your fondness for nostalgia-inducing computer games), the words “You are likely to be eaten by a grue” may or may not ...

Interactive fiction games offer real choice, impacting outcomes and character interactions and manage to create deep worlds without fancy graphics, instead immersing players through storytelling.