Text Adventure (Computer Game Genre)
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Definition and Typical Features
Text adventures are a genre of computer game requiring the player to input descriptions of actions (e.g. 'look,' 'go north,' 'open door')on a computer command line by typing, which when entered correctly prompt the computer to return clues or descriptions of advancing events in a virtual fictional narrative. Typical features of the genre include:
- textual descriptions-- including locations and objects and theeffect of actions as they are called for by commands. Early textadventures designed for computer systems not capable of displayinggraphics rely solely on textual description -- later versions oftext adventures often incorporate pictures as well as text.
- second person narrative perspective -- the main actor in thenarrative is referred to by the pronoun you, indicating theperson playing is responsible for instigating the action of thegame through their input.
- *items -- for example, keys to a door
- locations -- contexts where certain commands will work. e.g. the command 'look' typically provides a textual description of the area the player last entered, 'walk north' might
- alternate narrative branches -- possibly including alternate endings to a story, mistakes involving death, ways of gaining or losing 'points'
- puzzles -
- Second-person perspective.
- things
- other things
interactive fiction
The genre has also been termed interactive fiction, underscoring its position as an alternative style of fiction to longer-established literary forms such as the novel. A somewhat misleading term, because not all fictions with which one can interact are computer games, least text adventures.
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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