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The 18th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition. SLUDGE Adventure Game Engine - Home. View topic - Have you ever tried Inform 7? I was looking around this forum and someone posted some renpy resources, which included Inform 7. I downloaded it and while I like the idea of it, my experience with text adventures is limited. I've only completed one project with Renpy and it was more a test/lighthearted attempt, with a new idea for a story coming through I initially started it in Renpy, the trouble is in that I just feel like I lack too many resources, pictures, backgrounds, sounds etc. Inform 7 seemed perfect for me. Only text meant I could expand the story and not feel like the game was lacking because people only expected text. While I struggled through renpy initially now I feel I can do most things I would like, but this inform 7 seems impossible to use.

I just wondered if anyone had any experiecne with it, how did you find it? Also how much do you need from Renpy games, what order would you rank these in importance.. StoryGraphicsSoundsMusicMultiple endingsLength. Interactive Fiction: Playing, Studying and Writing Text Adventure Games (Dennis G. Jerz, Seton Hill University) In-depth: Is it time for a text game revival? For years, the traditional publishing industry has been telling us that nobody wants story-driven adventures or game forms oriented around interactive storytelling. But the Kickstarter age has been showing us something a little bit different, amid successful fundraising for developers of renowned adventure games of yore.

But there's more than just nostalgia contributing to a potential revival for interactive stories. A broader gaming audience means appetites for game forms we might have once called "casual" in another time -- and furthermore, the popularity of tablets and e-readers means there's a real appetite for game forms that take advantage of a culture now habituated to reading on luminous screens in ways prior generations were widely not. In a market where books and games are close rivals for the most popular category on app stores, what happens when today's new gamers are hungry for something more than word puzzles? Text gaming: Back to the roots Playing with books, too.