Text Adventure (Computer Game Genre)
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Definition and Summary
Text adventures are a type of computer game that makesuse of descriptive commands (verbs such as 'look,' 'gonorth,' 'open door') which ,when entered on a computercommand line by typing, produce algorithmic responses that affectchanges in the progress of a virtual fictional narrative. Typicalfeatures of the genre include:
- second person perspective
- alternate narrative branches
commands consisting of
later include pictures
The history of the genre is parallel to the advent of personal
computing, with the first text adventure
- Second-person perspective.
The genre has also been termed interactive fiction, underscoring its relation to literary fiction as exemplified by the novelform. However, not all fictions with which one can interact are computer games, least text adventures. Similarly, not all computer programs in which descriptive commands that affect changes to a virtual scenario are text adventures. Text adventures combine have the following typicalfeatures:
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Interactive fictions
improvisation, alternate choices and outcomes)
prompt the computer to update the user with a textual or graphical
description of the actions those verbs stand for being performed in
the context of an ongoing story .
the results of those actions in an imaginative scenario or story that progresses according to.
ContextPointsarguements
Will Crowther's
