Home : Inform Brass Lantern Adventure Games Information Interactive Fiction Top 50 of all time (2011 edition) People were asked to send in a list of between 1 and 20 of their favourite IF games of all time (in no particular order). The number of points a game got was the number of lists on which it appeared. 35 participants cast a total of 437 votes on 183 different games; only the 48 games with 3 or more points are listed below. More information can be found here and here. News & updates (RSS) Details Games and Awards 1st Place: Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin2nd Place: Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota2nd Place: Photopia, by Adam Cadre4th Place: Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry5th Place: A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky6th Place: De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers6th Place: Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. This is version 6 of this page, edited by Victor Gijsbers on 1 October 2011 at 04:25 PM
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The Interactive Fiction Archive Brass Lantern Downloading and Running Text Adventures: Z-Code and AGT Z-Code Z-code games are, to some extent, the most complex of the ones discussed in this article. Z-code games are written for a virtual machine known as the z-machine, which was developed by Infocom. All of Infocom's text adventures ran on the z-machine, and the text adventure language Inform creates z-code games by default. Z-code game files come in several varieties: .z3, .z5, .z8, and sometimes .dat. Most z-machine interpreters are variants on one of two basic types, Frotz and Zip. Once upon a time AGT bestrode the world of amateur interactive fiction like a Sauroposeidon. The AGT interpreter was originally only available for MS-DOS, but Robert Masenten wrote AGiliTy.
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The Interactive Fiction Database - IF and Text Adventures Interactive Fiction Interactive fiction was the first great computer-game craze. Through the early 1980s, the most sophisticated, complex, involving games available were the text adventures. Everyone agreed. Of course, advancing graphics eventually washed away IF’s supremacy. I’ve been part of that community for a decade and a half. You can play my games freely (and for free). (Okay, except for Hadean Lands. If you’ve never played IF before... Everyone’s heard that IF is hard to play. Furthermore, most situations in every game are amenable to a handful of common commands. (Click for PDF version, HTML version, print-quality bitmap, or others. If you still feel overwhelmed, I recommend you start with The Dreamhold, listed below. Hadean Lands An interactive alchemical interplanetary thriller. This is my next game. Bigger Than You Think Fanfic of xkcd “Click and Drag,” with a dash of Invisible Cities Marco Polo tells the Khan of an unusual underground journey. Cold Iron Where's that axe? The Matter of the Monster
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