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''Text adventures'' are a type of computer game that makes use of descriptive commands (verbs such as 'look,' 'go north,' 'open door') which when entered on a command line produce algorithmic responses that affect changes in the progress of a virtual fictional narrative.
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''Text adventures'' are a type of computer game that makes use of descriptive commands (verbs such as 'look,' 'go north,' 'open door') which when entered on a command line produce algorithmic responses that affect changes in the progress of a virtual fictional narrative.  
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== Interactive Fiction==
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The genre has also been termed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_fiction interactive fiction], underscoring its relation to literary fiction as exemplified by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel novel]form. However, not all fictions with which one can interact are computer games, least text adventures. On the other hand, not all descriptive commands that affect changes to a virtual scenario are ''text adventures''.
The genre has also been termed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_fiction interactive fiction], underscoring its relation to literary fiction as exemplified by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel novel]form. However, not all fictions with which one can interact are computer games, least text adventures. On the other hand, not all descriptive commands that affect changes to a virtual scenario are ''text adventures''.
== Defining Characteristics and Comparison to other Forms==
== Defining Characteristics and Comparison to other Forms==

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Text adventures are a type of computer game that makes use of descriptive commands (verbs such as 'look,' 'go north,' 'open door') which when entered on a command line produce algorithmic responses that affect changes in the progress of a virtual fictional narrative.



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. On the other hand, not all descriptive commands that affect changes to a virtual scenario are text adventures.

Defining Characteristics and Comparison to other Forms

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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