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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.
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.
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]
The 7th Saga [a] is a turn-based role-playing video game developed by Produce! and published by Enix for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1993. [2] The game made innovative use of a radar system during gameplay. It featured 7 playable characters of various types including humans, an elf, a dwarf, robots, a demon, and an alien.
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".
[1] [2] Armor Class (or AC): The difficulty to hit a specified target, abstracted from its dodging capacity and armor. [3] [4] "This term was inherited from a naval battle game". [3]: 203 Many role-playing games that came after Dungeons & Dragons have "abandoned the notion of defining defense as armor class". [3]: 54
7th Sea is a "swashbuckling and sorcery"-themed tabletop role-playing game by John Wick. [2] It is set in the fictional world of Théah, a fantasy version of 17th century Earth. Originally published by AEG, 7th Sea is currently published by Chaosium. The game won an Origins Award in 2000 and six ENNIE Awards in 2017.
Breath of Fire II is a traditional role-playing video game featuring two-dimensional character sprites and environments. [4] Players view the game from a top-down perspective and move their characters in four directions across various environments including towns and dungeons while interacting with non-player characters and battling enemies to advance the story.