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:
- 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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- 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
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- Second-person perspective.
- things
- other things
interactive fiction
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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.
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