Text Adventure (Computer Game Genre)
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Definition and Summary
Text adventures are a genre of computer game requiringthe player to input descriptions of actions (e.g. 'look,''go north,' 'open door')on a computer command lineby typing, which when entered correctly prompt the computer toreturn clues or descriptions of advancing events in a virtualfictional narrative.
Typical features of the genre include:
- second person perspective -- the main actor in the narrative is
referred to by the pronoun
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- *textual descriptions of locations and the effect of actions
- alternate narrative branches
commands consisting of
later include pictures
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- 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 typical features:
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
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