Interactive Fiction

 

This chapter was very interesting. I am not a big game person. The only video game I play is the sims and even then I only play twice a year. But even I can have appreciation for this form of electronic lit. In my brain I never connected that hypertext and video games could be so connected because in all honesty I do not really care for video games. Something I find I really like about gamelike fiction is the way the reader becomes part of the game. It develops a new depth to literature and I like that. The process of creating these games is still wildly confusing to me and code feels like another language but I like the end process. 

This week I decided to play Adventure by Will Crowther and Don Woods. After playing for a good half and hour I got so stuck with the snake I had rage quit. I found this game to be really cool. At first I had trouble with the single word commands and got stuck at the end of the road a few times. Even not being a game person I found this very intriguing. I enjoyed how the computer would respond and almost guide me when I needed help. I really enjoyed how it was just words, I found that really cool. I liked the texting like format. It was very interactive and pulled me in right away. I might go back and try to figure out more, but the snake has me stuck.