For longtime adventure fans, the lexicon associated with the text adventure Zork and the company founded to publish it, Infocom, have become legend. Many gamers still recoil at the thought of the ...

Infocom Chat brings together classic text adventures and large language models. The site lets you play Infocom's legendary ...

Text-based adventure games, known as “interactive fiction” in gamer’s parlance, are making a slow but steady comeback thanks to a Mac-friendly programming tool called Inform 7. “It is pitch black. You ...

Text-based adventures have always been a bit of a niche genre of games to me, with a few notable exceptions like your classic Zork in the late seventies. Some other big names come to mind, like Beam ...

Last week, Microsoft made the classic games Zork, Zork II, and Zork III available as open source under the MIT license. “Our goal is simple: to place historically important code in the hands of ...

Zork Classics: Interactive Fiction is a compilation of nine Infocom text adventures set in the Zork universe. Games in the compilation: - Zork I: The Great Underground Empire - Zork II: The Wizard of ...