Dragon Fall Chat- Designer of Interactive Fiction 1893 A World's Fair Mystery

Peter (illuminatedlantern.com)was kind enough to join us and tell us about designing and programming interactive fiction. From his blog: 'Interactive Fiction…the “Text Adventure” of old, had its heyday in the 1980′s, and were among the top-selling forms of computer based entertainment. But then the computers got more powerful, and graphics kept getting better and better — the very beginning of the process that still continues today — and writers junked the format. “Nobody would look at just text now that they can have graphics, too,” they said, and “Nobody sits in front of their computers to read!” But a funny thing happened between the day Interactive Fiction was declared dead, and today: a little something called the Internet.' You can find and download Peter's games at the following link, and you should, they are a blast:
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