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. The genre has also been termed interactivefiction, underscoring its relation to literary fiction as pervadedby the traditional novel form. A somewhat misleading term, becausenot all fictions with which one can interact are computer games,least text adventures. Similarly, not all computer programs inwhich descriptive commands that affect changes to a virtualscenario are text adventures. Typical features of the genreinclude:
- textual descriptions-- of locations and objects and the effect of actions as they are called for by commands, esp. in early text adventures designed for computer systems not capable of displaying graphics, later versions of text adventures often incorporate pictures as well as text.
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West of House You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.
- second person perspective -- the main actor in the narrative is referred to by the pronoun you, indicating the person playing is responsible for instigating the action of the game through their input.
- alternate narrative branches
commands consisting of
later include pictures
- 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.
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