The Interactive Fiction Renaissance
Image credit: Subgamers Now that we’re in 2016, the year of VR (and AR, as Pokemon GO illustrates), video seems to be on equal ground with their games half, sometimes getting more attention, sometimes less. But amidst all the drive for making video games a visually pleasing experience, it’s nice to know there are developers out there who are still making text adventures, and making them well. Now called interactive fiction, these video games rely more heavily on high quality writing to base the story on, and support the gamer with, along the entire adventure....