11 Facts About Interactive fiction

The number of interactive fiction works is increasing steadily as new ones are produced by an online community, using freely available development systems.

The most famous example of this form of printed fiction is the Choose Your Own Adventure book series, and the collaborative "addventure" format has been described as a form of interactive fiction.

Interactive fiction usually relies on reading from a screen and on typing input, although text-to-speech synthesizers allow blind and visually impaired users to play interactive fiction titles as audio games.

MUDs, which became popular in the mid-1980s, rely on a textual exchange and accept similar commands from players as do works of IF; however, since interactive fiction is single player, and MUDs, by definition, have multiple players, they differ enormously in gameplay styles.

Interactive fiction took out a small ad in a computer magazine in order to promote and sell Adventureland, thus creating the first commercial adventure game.

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Largest company producing works of interactive fiction was Infocom, which created the Zork series and many other titles, among them Trinity, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and A Mind Forever Voyaging.

Interactive fiction became a standard product for many software companies.

Interactive fiction was bought by Activision in 1986 after the failure of Cornerstone, Infocom's database software program, and stopped producing text adventures a few years later.

Probably the first commercial work of interactive fiction produced outside the U S was the dungeon crawl game of Acheton, produced in Cambridge, England, and first commercially released by Acornsoft.

In Spain, interactive fiction was considered a minority genre, and was not very successful.

The first Spanish interactive fiction commercially released was Yenght in 1983, by Dinamic Software, for the ZX Spectrum.