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The Z-machine is a virtual machine that was developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank in 1979 and used by Infocom for its text adventure games.Infocom compiled game code to files containing Z-machine instructions (called story files or Z-code files) and could therefore port its text adventures to a new platform simply by writing a Z-machine implementation for that platform.
The Wizard Sniffer is a 2017 interactive fiction fantasy comedy game by Buster Hudson. [1]The Wizard Sniffer was Hudson's seventh game published in the Interactive Fiction Database (IFDB) and is, as of 2023, his latest game, not counting Cragne Manor (2018) [2] which has 84 collaborating authors.
In 1993, Graham Nelson released Inform, a programming language and set of libraries which compiled to a Z-Code story file. Each of these systems allowed anyone with sufficient time and dedication to create a game, and caused a growth boom in the online interactive fiction community.
Short has been called "a visionary in the world of text-based games for years," [7] and is the author of over forty works of IF. [8] She wrote the chapters "Challenges of a Broad Geography" and "NPC Conversation Systems" for the 2011 The IF Theory Reader. [9] She wrote a regular column on IF for Rock Paper Shotgun. [10]
This is a comprehensive index of commercial role-playing video games, sorted chronologically by year.Information regarding date of release, developer, publisher, operating system, subgenre and notability is provided where available.
A role-playing game (RPG) is a type of game in which players assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create stories. This includes traditional, live-action (LARP) and computer-assisted (CARP) role-playing games.
Graham A. Nelson (born 1968) is a British mathematician, poet, and the creator of the Inform design system for creating interactive fiction (IF) games. He has authored several IF games, including Curses (1993) and Jigsaw (1995).
Rendition is a 2007 work of interactive fiction by "nespresso", written using Inform 7 and published in z-code format, in which the player performs an interrogation of a suspected terrorist. The game describes itself as a "political art experiment in text adventure form".