Interactive Fiction Games

An interactive fiction (IF) game is almost like a fancy computerised version of a “choose your own adventure” book with more choices available.

April 11 2008
An interactive fiction game occurs all in text input and output, making it accessible to those using VoiceOver’s spoken or braille interfaces. IF games are also turn-based rather than time-based, so if it takes the user several minutes or more to enter their portion of the text this won’t affect the game. This makes IF games ideal for those who have difficulty with the pace of real-time games. Wikipedia provides a sample transcript of a short IF game which gives the flavour of these games and TADS has an Introduction to Interactive Fiction which is longer. One piece of fantastic news for Mac based interactive fiction players is that there’s a brilliant client available called Zoom. As well as being free, Zoom is fully compatible with VoiceOver and also provides an option to have the text of a game spoken automatically as you play. The most recent version of Zoom is currently not listed on the regular page - you can now download Zoom 1.1.2 which is more compatible with Leopard and has some bugfixes for speech generation. It also has a built-in browser for selecting new games to download and play. For those new to IF games, I suggest you look at Eric Eve’s IF Games For (...)
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Featured Reviews

Save the day as Supercow!

Supercow is a colorful, side-scrolling arcade title designed for all ages. it’s easy to learn and a blast to play!

May 09 2008
Supercow features the voices of professional cartoon actors for each and every one of the characters. The action is fast and furious with bright and colorful graphics and plenty of levels and challenges to beat. There’s also plenty of secrets and special items to find. As Supercow you must find a way to defeat the evil professor Duriarti, who has seized the farm and captured the animals! He has cloned the animals and made the clones work for him to help successfully fulfill his diabolical (...)
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Letter Connector

Letter Connector is a simple, but addictive game that you can play for a few minutes at a time. And it won’t take up much space on your hard drive.

April 18 2008
The idea of the game is to form words using the randomly arranged letters. Words can start with any letter, but each additional letter must be adjacent to the previous letter. Press enter when the word is complete. Longer words are worth more points. The game ends after 30 words have been formed. The game’s features include a 100,000+ word dictionary and the ability to add words. It also tracks high scores and has sound effects. The interface is mouse operated and easy to navigate (...)
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Second Life: Thinking Inside the Box

Something everyone dreams of is flying, and of course it is generally absurd to think of flying, at least while you are wearing your body... some who are severely disabled - like myself, dream as well - of walking or holding things though it’s (...)

April 09 2008
With a bit of practice though, I can do all those things - and far more - in the massive multi-user universe called Second life. Second Life is an online, 3-D virtual world that has been running since 2003 and now has five million members around the world - in it you can be who, or even whatever you want to be. When you are first "born" in SL (as it is often abbreviated) you arrive on a "playpen" island - where you can get used to your new Avatar, or virtual body - without embarrassment (...)
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